In Greene’s “magnificent tour-de-force among tales of
international intrigue,” rival agents engage in a deadly game of cat
and mouse in prewar England (The New York Times). D., a widowed
professor of Romance literature, has arrived in Dover on a peaceful
yet important mission. He’s to negotiate a contract to buy coal for
his country, one torn by civil war. With it, there’s a chance to
defeat fascist influences. Without it, the loyalists will fail. When
D. strikes up a romantic acquaintance with the estranged but
solicitous daughter of a powerful coal-mining magnate, everything
appears to be in his favor—if not for a counteragent who has come to
England with the intent of sabotaging every move he makes. Accused of
forgery and theft, and roped into a charge of murder, D. becomes a
hunted man, hemmed in at every turn by an ever-tightening net of
intrigue and double cross, with no one left to trust but himself.
Written during the height of the Spanish Civil War, Graham Greene’s
“exciting . . . kaleidoscopic affair” was the basis for the
classic 1945 thriller starring Charles Boyer and Lauren Bacall (The
Sunday Times).
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ISBN
9781504053969
Publisert
2018
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Open Road Media
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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