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A leak is traced to a small sub-section of SIS, sparking off
the inevitable security checks, tensions and suspicions.
The sort of atmosphere, perhaps, where mistakes could
be made?
For Maurice Castle - dull, but brilliant with files - it is
the end of the line anyway, and it is time to retire to live
peacefully with his African wife, Sarah.
To the lonely, isolated, neurotic world of the Secret Service
Graham Greene brings his brilliance and perception,
laying bare a machine that sometimes overlooks the subtle
and secret motivations that impel us all.
'Graham Greene's beautiful and disturbing new novel is
filled with tenderness, humour, excitement and doubt. . .
observation of this kind, with every word in its place and a
place for every wrord, shows a mastery beyond mellowing
age and the fashions of time which we now recognize and
enjoy as among the great pleasures of late Greene' —
Michael Ratcliffe in The Times
'As fine a novel as he has ever written — concise,...
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Fülszöveg
A leak is traced to a small sub-section of SIS, sparking off
the inevitable security checks, tensions and suspicions.
The sort of atmosphere, perhaps, where mistakes could
be made?
For Maurice Castle - dull, but brilliant with files - it is
the end of the line anyway, and it is time to retire to live
peacefully with his African wife, Sarah.
To the lonely, isolated, neurotic world of the Secret Service
Graham Greene brings his brilliance and perception,
laying bare a machine that sometimes overlooks the subtle
and secret motivations that impel us all.
'Graham Greene's beautiful and disturbing new novel is
filled with tenderness, humour, excitement and doubt. . .
observation of this kind, with every word in its place and a
place for every wrord, shows a mastery beyond mellowing
age and the fashions of time which we now recognize and
enjoy as among the great pleasures of late Greene' —
Michael Ratcliffe in The Times
'As fine a novel as he has ever written — concise, ironic,
acutely observant of contemporary life, funny, shocking,
above all compassionate' - Anthony Burgess in the
Observer
Cover illustration by Paul Hogarth
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