Graham Greene
Author
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
c1977
Language
English
Description
The third man : Rollo Martins, a second-rate novelist, arrives penniless to visit his friend and hero, Harry Lime. But Harry has died in suspicious circumstances, and the police are closing in on his associates. The fallen idol : A small boy is caught up in the games adults play. Left in the care of the butler and his wife while his parents go on holiday, Philip realizes too late the danger of lies and deceit. But the truth is even deadlier.
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
"When Father Quixote, a local priest of the Spanish village of El Toboso who claims ancestry to Cervantes' fictional Don Quixote, is elevated to the rank of monsignor through a clerical error, he sets out on a journey to Madrid to purchase purple socks appropriate to his new station. Accompanying him on his mission is his best friend, Sancho, the Communist ex-mayor of the village who argues politics and religion with Quixote and rescues him from the...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[1970]
Language
English
Description
Anthony Farrant has boasted, lied and cheated his way through jobs all over the world. Then his twin sister, Kate, gets him taken on as the bodyguard of Krogh, her lover and boss, a megalomaniac Swedish financier. All goes well until Krogh gives orders that offend Anthony's innate decency.
Author
Publisher
Reinhardt Books in association with Viking
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
English
Description
The last word -- The news in English -- The moment of truth -- The man who stole the Eiffel Tower -- The lieutenant died last -- A branch of the service -- An old man's memory -- The lottery ticket -- The new house -- Work not in progress -- Murder for the wrong reason -- An appointment with the general.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this adaptation of Graham Greene's prophetic novel set at the beginning of the United States' disastrous entanglement in Southeast Asia, idealism, love and betrayal lead to murder for THE QUIET AMERICAN.American Alden Pyle (Brandon Fraser--Crash) arrives in Saigon in the fall of 1952, the decisive moment in the struggle by the Vietnamese to free themselves from the French yoke. Eager to succeed in his mission to help the Vietnamese people through...
13) Ministry of fear
Series
Criterion collection volume 649
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
En route to London after being released from a mental institution, Stephen Neale stops at a seemingly innocent village fair, after which he finds himself caught in the web of a sinister underworld with possible Nazi connections.
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