In postwar London, a boy is drawn into a labyrinth of personal betrayals, intrigue, love, and revolution. In Graham Greene’s final novel, “we enter those disparate worlds [he] has made his own—the England of Brighton Rock and The Ministry of Fear, and the exotic Central American territories in which his restless talent has so often roamed” (The New York Times).

A detective and a chorus girl stalk the shadows of a murderer in this thriller from “a pioneer of the modern mood we now think of as noir” (LA Weekly). The breathless cinematic narrative of Graham Greene’s thriller became a perfect fit for the classic 1942 film noir starring Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake.

A hapless salesman in Cuba is recruited into Cold War spy games in Graham Greene’s “comical, satirical, atmospherical” novel (The Daily Telegraph). At once an espionage thriller, a penetrating character study, and a political satire of government intelligence, this classic novel still resonates today.

Three compelling novels from the acclaimed British author

Three novels of international intrigue, political injustice, and crime, from “one of the finest writers of any language” (The Washington Post).

A teenage sociopath rises to power in Britain’s criminal underworld in this “brilliant and uncompromising” thriller (The New York Times).

“Why does this bleak, seething and anarchic novel still resonate? Its energy and power is that of the rebellious adolescent, foreshadowing the rise of the cult of youth in the latter part of the 20th century.” —The Guardian