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The Confidential Agent — Graham Greene
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Sep-1982 (Hardcover) -
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In Greene's "magnificent tour-de-force among tales of international intrigue," rival agents engage in a deadly game of cat and mouse in prewar England (The New York Times).
D., a widowed professor of Romance literature, has arrived in Dover on a peaceful yet important mission. He's to negotiate a contract to buy coal for his country, one torn by civil war. With it, there's a chance to defeat fascist influences. Without it, the loyalists will fail. When D. strikes up a romantic acquaintance with the estranged but solicitous daughter of a powerful coal-mining magnate, everything appears to be in his favor -- if not for a counteragent who has come to England with the intent of sabotaging every move he makes. Accused of forgery and theft, and roped into a charge of murder, D. becomes a hunted man, hemmed in at every turn by an ever-tightening net of intrigue and double cross, with no one left to trust but himself.
Written during the height of the Spanish Civil War, Graham Greene's "exciting . . . kaleidoscopic affair" was the basis for the classic 1945 thriller starring Charles Boyer and Lauren Bacall (The Sunday Times).
Praise for Graham Greene
"A masterly storyteller." -- Newsweek
"The ultimate chronicler of twentieth-century man's consciousness and anxiety." -- William Golding, Nobel Prize�"winning author of Lord of the Flies
"A superb storyteller with a gift for provoking controversy." -- The New York Times
"One of the finest writers of any language." -- The Washington Post
D., a widowed professor of Romance literature, has arrived in Dover on a peaceful yet important mission. He's to negotiate a contract to buy coal for his country, one torn by civil war. With it, there's a chance to defeat fascist influences. Without it, the loyalists will fail. When D. strikes up a romantic acquaintance with the estranged but solicitous daughter of a powerful coal-mining magnate, everything appears to be in his favor -- if not for a counteragent who has come to England with the intent of sabotaging every move he makes. Accused of forgery and theft, and roped into a charge of murder, D. becomes a hunted man, hemmed in at every turn by an ever-tightening net of intrigue and double cross, with no one left to trust but himself.
Written during the height of the Spanish Civil War, Graham Greene's "exciting . . . kaleidoscopic affair" was the basis for the classic 1945 thriller starring Charles Boyer and Lauren Bacall (The Sunday Times).
Praise for Graham Greene
"A masterly storyteller." -- Newsweek
"The ultimate chronicler of twentieth-century man's consciousness and anxiety." -- William Golding, Nobel Prize�"winning author of Lord of the Flies
"A superb storyteller with a gift for provoking controversy." -- The New York Times
"One of the finest writers of any language." -- The Washington Post
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- Feb-1968
- Penguin
- Paperback
- ISBN: 0670002216
- ISBN13: 9780670002214
- This Gun for Hire / The Confidential Agent / Ministry of Fear
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- May-1952
- Viking
- Hardcover
- ISBN: 0670706809
- ISBN13: 9780670706808
- This Gun for Hire / The Confidential Agent / Ministry of Fear
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