The Confidential Agent: An Entertainment - Hardcover

Greene, Graham

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0851191592 ISBN 13: 9780851191591

Publisher: Chivers Press, 1982

Synopsis

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY IAN RANKIN.

In a small continental country civil war is raging. Once a lecturer in medieval French, now a confidential agent, D is a scarred stranger in a seemingly casual England, sent on a mission to buy coal at any price. Initially, this seems to be a matter of straightforward negotiation, but soon, implicated in murder, accused of possessing false documents and theft, held responsible for the death of a young woman, D becomes a hunted man, tormented by allegiances, doubts and the love of others.

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Review:

"'In a class by himself...the ultimate chronicler of twentieth-centuryman's consciousness and anxiety' William Golding"

"'The most ingenious, inventive and exciting of our novelists, rich in exactly etched and moving portraits of real human beings...the tragic and comic ironies of love, loyalty and belief'" (V. S. Pritchett The Times)

"'A superb storyteller...he had a talent for depicting local colour, a keen sense of the dramatic, and eye for dialogue, and skill in pacing his prose'" (New York Times)

From the Publisher:

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY IAN RANKIN

About this edition

• Publisher: Chivers Press
• Publication date: 1982
• ISBN 10: 0851191592
• ISBN 13: 9780851191591
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304