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Spy's Bedside Book, The by Graham Greene
Category: Fiction
Includes an introduction by the former head of MI5, Stella Rimington. This book also includes spy stories as well as answers to questiions like: How can you hide messages in a boiled egg? And why should you always put pepper in your vodka when in Russia?
Stamboul Train by Graham Greene
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Carleton Myatt meets Coral Musker, a na#65533;ve English chorus girl, aboard the Orient Express as it heads across Europe to Constantinople. As their relationship develops, they find themselves caught up in the fates of the other passengers and drawn into a ...Show more
The Captain and the Enemy by Graham Greene
Category: Classic
Greene's last novel - genre-defying, rich and marvellous A young boy, Victor, is collected from school by a stranger in a bowler hat - the stranger says he has won Victor in a game of backgammon with Victor's father. The stranger, known as the Captain, takes Victor to live with the sweet but withdrawn ...Show more
The Captain and the Enemy by Graham Greene
Category: Classic
Victor Baxter is a young boy when a secretive stranger known simply as "the Captain" takes him from his boarding school to live in London. Victor becomes the surrogate son and companion of a woman named Liza, who renames him "Jim" and depends on him for any news about the world outside their door. Raise ...Show more
The Captain and the Enemy by Graham Greene
Category: Fiction
Victor Baxter is a young boy when a secretive stranger known simply as "the Captain" takes him from his boarding school to live in London. Victor becomes the surrogate son and companion of a woman named Liza, who renames him "Jim" and depends on him for any news about the world outside their door. Raise ...Show more
The Comedians by Graham Greene
Category: Classic Fiction
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY PAUL THEROUX Three men meet on a ship bound for Haiti, a world in the grip of the corrupt 'Papa Doc' and the Tontons Macoute, his sinister secret police. Brown the hotelier, Smith the innocent American and Jones the confidence man - these are the 'comedians' of Graham Greene's ...Show more
The Comedians by Graham Greene
Category: Classic
Strangers in Port-au-Prince are united in the corruption, fear, and revolt of Duvalier-era Haiti in "the most interesting novel of [Greene's] career" (The Nation). Haiti, under the rule of Papa Doc and his menacing paramilitary, the Tontons Macoute, has long been abandoned by tourists. Now it is home ...Show more
The Comedians by Graham Greene
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics
Three men meet on a ship bound for Haiti, a world in the grip of the corrupt Papa Doc and the Tontons Macoute, his sinister secret police. Brown the hotelier, Smith the innocent American, and Jones the confidence man these are the comedians of Greene s title. Hiding behind their actors masks, they hesit ...Show more
The Confidential Agent by Graham Greene
Category: Audio Books
The tale of a hunted man on a mysterious mission for a government that doesn't trust him, told with Greene's customary skill and style. 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, ...Show more