By Graham Greene
"A masterpiece - tapped out within the lean, sharp-eyed prose that movie paintings taught Greene to perfect." - Sunday Times
"A easily plotted mental thriller."- Time
"All the Greene hallmarks are there: velocity, ingenuity--profundities steered yet by no means insisted upon." - Penelope Lively
An completely gripping tale of a filthy rich French attorney being held prisoner through the Germans in the course of global conflict II. The attorney is selected by means of the warriors to die, yet in its place he makes a cowardly exchange for his life--one that he'll need to pay for while a unfastened guy .
In the advent to the 1st variation of his novel Graham Greene states that he had forgotten approximately this tale until eventually receiving a letter approximately it from a stranger in 1983. Greene had first instructed it as an idea for a movie script in 1937, and later built it while operating for MGM through the Nineteen Forties. not anything got here of it and the rights have been provided on the market through MGM in 1983. the client (Anthony Blond) allowed Greene to revise and hence post the paintings. Greene additionally writes of this novel that "I like it in lots of how you can The 3rd Man"
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He belched again. "Food always does this to me," he explained, "when I eat late. I have to be careful about supper if I am entertaining a little friend. " "You'd better go to sleep. " Charlot, leaning against the washstand, watched Carosse with dull distaste--watched not only Carosse--a mirror on the wardrobe door reflected both of their images; two middle-aged ruined men discussing a young girl. Never before had he been so aware of his age. "Do you know," Carosse said, "I'm half regretting that I'm leaving here.
The shallow eyes flickered disapproval: the man only liked his intimates--the payers, Charlot thought--to call him by his name. "You don't remember me, Jules," Charlot said. The man became uneasy: perhaps some tone of voice echoed in his ear. The times were confusing: some customers had disappeared altogether, others who had been in hiding had returned changed by imprisonment, and others who had not been in hiding it was now in the interests of his business to discourage. " The American began to hit loudly on the table with a coin.
Charlot, leaning against the washstand, watched Carosse with dull distaste--watched not only Carosse--a mirror on the wardrobe door reflected both of their images; two middle-aged ruined men discussing a young girl. Never before had he been so aware of his age. "Do you know," Carosse said, "I'm half regretting that I'm leaving here. I believe I could compete with you--even as Jean-Louis Chavel. You haven't any dash, my dear fellow. " "Why ever not? You've nothing against me. " He yawned and stretched.