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Galerie
by Steven Greenberg M. Stefania SottileNumero 1 su Amazon, Bestseller in 4 Paesi! La ricerca della verità di una donna rivela un oscuro segreto di famiglia a lungo sepolto nel passato nazista di Praga. VINCITORE: Pinnacle Book Achievement Award, Autunno 2015 – Premio per il miglior libro di narrativa FINALISTA: Readers’ Favorite Book Award 2016 – Premio per la narrativa storica “Immaginate Stephen King che scrive Schindler’s List…” ~ Nikki Tutte le famiglie hanno dei segreti, ma alcuni sono molto più oscuri, arrivano più a fondo e toccano un nervo più scoperto di altri. Vanesa Neuman è la figlia di un sopravvissuto dell’Olocausto e la sua infanzia, nell’angusta intimità del sud di Tel Aviv, è ombreggiata dalle esperienza di guerra taciute dei suoi genitori. Per lei il passato era come un libro chiuso… fino a quando suo padre non muore e quel libro le cade letteralmente addosso, aprendosi. A questo punto Vanesa deve svelare a tutti i costi il mistero del diario che ha ricevuto, ma anche quello dello strano simbolo contenuto al suo interno. Ambientato nello scenario dell’occupazione nazista e del Museo Ebraico di Praga – il “Museo della Razza Estinta” di Adolf Eichmann – Galerie costituisce una narrativa storica dal passo serrato, seguendo la tradizione di La chiave di Sara, di Tatiana De Rosnay. Dal centro di ricerca sull’Olocausto Yad V’Shem di Gerusalemme, ai sobborghi di Praga e all’ex “ghetto paradiso” di Theresienstadt, il viaggio di comprensione di Vanesa rivelerà il passato di famiglia più oscuro di quanto lei potesse mai immaginare, un segreto tenuto in vita per oltre mezzo secolo. PERFETTO PER I CLUB DEL LIBRO: alla fine della storia è inclusa una guida per il club del libro. Evolved Publishing presenta un’emozionante opera di narrativa storica che analizza come gli orrori dell’Olocausto risuonino ancora nelle generazioni successive e come pers
Marvel Captain America: The Never-Ending Battle
by Robert GreenbergerWhen Steve Rogers accompanies a congressional delegation to Eastern Europe, he is confronted by memories from the Second World War, and when the peaceful tour of the region is upended by a series of seemingly random attacks by super-powered opponents, Captain America is forced back on the offensive. Accompanied by Black Widow, Cap undertakes an investigation that uncovers a nefarious plan that could have devastating consequences for the world. Captain America: The Never-Ending Battle takes the Star-Spangled Avenger on a whirlwind tour that forces him to come to terms with his past as he struggles to establish peace for the future. Written by writer and veteran comics editor Robert Greenberger, this novel puts Cap to the test in surprising and unexpected ways that bring his life full circle.
Secrets of Dripping Fang #5: The Shluffmuffin Boy Is History
by Dan GreenburgAlthough a paid assassin is stalking Wally while his twin sister Cheyenne is under the power of the queen ont, it is up to them, their vampire dad, and their friends to save the human race from the giant onts.
Zack Files 09: The Volcano Goddess Will See You Now
by Dan GreenburgHawaii. Dream vacation. Same thing, right? Wrong! No sooner do Zack and his dad arrive at their hotel does strange things start happening to Zack. First he gets bonked on the head by a falling coconut, then the T. V. blows up, then he gets thrown off of the treadmill in the hotel spa. Zack appears to be cursed. Could it be the piece of lava rock he bought in the gift shop?
Blowout in Little Man Flats
by Martin H. Greenburg Billie Sue MosimanThis addition to the Great American Murder Mysteries series presents a collection of murder mysteries set in the West of America. Featured authors include Lawrence Block, Kathleen Dougherty, Brian Garfield and J. Michael Straczynzki
Birds of a Feather (Mysteries of Sparrow Island)
by Carolyn GreeneWHILE PLANTING HUCKLEBERRY and rose bushes in her parents' backyard, Abigail Stanton is startled by the discovery of a padlocked metal box. When no one in her family lays claim to it, Abby begins a search for its owner. Who could have buried it at Stanton Farm ... and why? But it's what's inside the box that makes this mystery all the more puzzling. Meanwhile, can Abby help her new friend Ida escape a destructive relationship and find her way back to God? MYSTERIES OF SPARROW ISLAND: MeetAbigail Stanton, ornithologist, bird-watcher and a keen observer who brings a sharp eye to bear on the secrets that lie hidden on Sparrow Island, a place of extraordinary natural beauty in the San Juan Islands. Abby has a knack for finding her way into the middle of mysteries full of excitement and intrigue... but also inspired by hope and faith.
Dotty's Suitcase
by Constance C. GreeneIn Dotty's world, excitement is as scarce as money--and her desire to escape is bottomless During the Great Depression, twelve-year-old Dotty dreams of traveling far away--maybe even to Africa to see crocodiles along the Nile. But first she needs luggage. If she wishes hard enough, she knows she'll get it. When a bag full of money nearly lands in Dotty's lap, adventure awaits. She and her neighbor Jud quickly discover that danger and heartbreak travel with that suitcase, and Dotty realizes that the reality of getting away from her small town may not be all that she imagined.
I Believe in Sherlock Holmes: Early Fan Fiction from the Very First Fandom
by Douglas G. GreeneWhen Arthur Conan Doyle killed off his fictional sleuth in the 1893 story "The Final Problem," distraught readers resorted to producing their own versions of Sherlock Holmes's adventures-thus inventing the now-common genre of fan fiction. These tales by famous and lesser-known devotees offer the best of early Sherlockian tributes and parodies.Editor Douglas G. Greene's informative Introduction provides background on each of the stories and their authors. The collection begins with Robert Barr's "The Great Pegram Mystery," a satire that appeared less than a year after the very first Holmes short story. Thirteen additional tales include Bret Harte's "The Stolen Cigar Case," praised by Ellery Queen as "one of the most devastating parodies" ever written about the Baker Street investigator; Mark Twain's "A Double-Barrelled Detective Story," featuring Holmes's nephew, Fetlock Jones; and "The Sleuths," by O. Henry, in which a bumbling New York private eye struggles to outshine a rival.
El agente confidencial (Biblioteca De Graham Ser.)
by Graham GreeneGreen escribió esta novela negra en solo seis semanas en 1938 y confiesaen el prólogo: «"El agente confidencial" es uno de los pocos libros quehe escrito que me ha interesado volver a leer, tal vez porque no esrealmente mío. Fue como si lo vampirizara# El libro avanzó con rapidezporque no tuve que lidiar con mis propios problemas técnicos: en elfondo estaba vampirizando la novela de un viejo escritor, que murió pocoantes de que el estudio en que yo trabajaba volara por el aire. Todo loque puedo decir como excusa y con gratitud hacia una sombra honorable,es que "El agente confidencial "es mejor novela de intriga que la queescribió Ford Madox Ford cuando intentó el genre en "Vive Le Roy"». Inspirada en la Guerra Civil española, la protagoniza un profesor deliteratura que deberá conseguir carbón para el gobierno republicano enuna Londres a las puertas de la Segunda Guerra Mundial; Un pacifistaobligado a tomar partido, un hombre acorralado e indefenso que debeenfrentarse a la injusticia en la más absoluta soledad. Sin ningún apoyooficial, y con el enemigo pisándole los talones.
El americano tranquilo (El\libro De Bolsillo/alianza Editorial Ser. #Vol. 5639)
by Graham GreeneEsta novela construida formalmente bajo los patrones del género deintriga se sitúa en Indochina durante los primeros años de la década delos 50 y es protagonizada por un periodista británico, un agente secretoestadounidense y una joven vietnamita. Es considerada una de las obrasmás acabadas, originales y vigorosas de Graham Greene. Situados en un complejo tablero en que se dirimen distintas pugnas lalucha del Vietminh por la independencia, el combate en retirada delejército francés, los primeros movimientos del Gobierno estadounidensepara hacerse con la hegemonía detentada hasta el momento por Francia, unperiodista británico, un agente de los servicios secretosnorteamericanos y una muchacha vietnamita constituyen los vértices deuna compleja relación triangular en la que cada personaje,representativo de concepciones culturales antagónicas, es guiado pormotivaciones que, mal entendidas o incomprensibles para los demás,terminan por producir resultados y comportamientos muy distintos de losque se persiguen.
Brighton Rock (Virago Modern Classics #Vol. 1)
by Graham GreeneA teenage sociopath rises to power in Britain’s criminal underworld in this “brilliant and uncompromising” thriller (The New York Times). Seventeen-year-old Pinkie Brown, raised amid the casual violence and corruption in the dire prewar Brighton slums, has left his final judgment in the hands of God. On the streets, impelled by his own twisted moral doctrine, he leads a motley pack of gangsters whose sleazy little rackets have most recently erupted in the murder of an informant. Pinkie’s attempts to cover their tracks have led him into the bed of a timid and lovestruck young waitress named Rose—his new wife, the key witness to his crimes, and, should she live long enough, his alibi. But loitering in the shadows is another woman, Ida Arnold—an avenging angel determined to do right by Pinkie’s latest victim. Adapted for film in both 1948 and 2010 and for the stage as both a drama and musical, and serving as an inspiration to such disparate artists as Morrissey, John Barry, and Queen, “this bleak, seething and anarchic novel still resonate[s]” (The Guardian).
The Captain and the Enemy: A Novel (Classic, 20th-century, Penguin Ser.)
by Graham GreeneIn postwar London, a boy is drawn into a labyrinth of personal betrayals, intrigue, love, and revolution: “In short, a tremendous yarn” (Paul Theroux). On his twelfth birthday, Victor Baxter is spirited away from boarding school by a stranger known only as the Captain who claims to have won him in a backgammon game with the boy’s diabolical father. Settling into a new life in a dire London flat, Victor becomes the willing ward of his mysterious abductor and the tender and childless Liza. He quickly adapts to the only family he’s ever known, despite the Captain’s long disappearances on suspicious “adventures” and a guarded curiosity about this peculiar but devoted couple who call him son. Then one day, in pursuit of answers, and perhaps an adventure of his own, Victor responds to an entreaty from the Captain to come to Panama. What transpires in this world of dangerous imposture is absolutely revelatory—for both Victor and the Captain. 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).
The Collected Novels Volume Five: A Burnt-Out Case, The Captain and the Enemy, The Comedians, and The Man Within
by Graham GreeneA quartet of compelling novels from the British author hailed as “one of the most significant novelists of his time” (Newsweek). From a crisis of faith to a leap of faith, from betrayal and corruption to the hope of redemption, the gripping novels in this collection reveal “a storyteller of genius” (Evelyn Waugh). A Burnt-Out Case: Querry, a world-renowned architect noted for his magnificent churches, is suffering a crisis of faith that’s led him to what seems like the end of the world: a colony of lepers in the Congo. Here, under the guidance of Doctor Colin, a fellow atheist, Querry’s consideration of the sick could be something close to a cure for his spiritual malaise. So too, it first seems, could a local plantation owner’s lonely and abused wife—Querry’s unlikely confessor. But when Querry reluctantly agrees to build a hospital and his good intentions brand him a modern-day saint, all the intrusive and dangerous piety of civilization returns. And this time it could be inescapable. “[Greene’s] greatest novel.” —Time The Captain and the Enemy: On his twelfth birthday, Victor Baxter is spirited away from boarding school by a stranger known only as the Captain, who claims to have won him from the boy’s diabolical father. Settling into a new life in a dire London flat, Victor becomes the willing ward of his mysterious abductor and the tender and childless Liza. He quickly adapts to the only family he’s ever known, despite the Captain’s long disappearances on suspicious “adventures” and a guarded curiosity about this peculiar but devoted couple. Then one day, in pursuit of answers, and perhaps an adventure of his own, Victor responds to an entreaty from the Captain to come to Panama. What follows in this world of dangerous imposture is absolutely revelatory. “[A] tremendous yarn.” —Paul Theroux The Comedians: Haiti, under the rule of Papa Doc and his menacing paramilitary, the Tontons Macoute, has long been abandoned by tourists. Now it is home to corrupt capitalists, foreign ambassadors and their lonely wives—and a small group of enterprising strangers arriving in Port-au-Prince: a well-meaning American couple claiming to bring vegetarianism to the natives; a former fighter in World War II Burma and current confidence man; and an English hotelier returning home to the Trianon, an unsalable shell of an establishment on the hills above the capital. Each is embroiled in a charade. But when they’re unsuspectingly bound together in this nightmare republic of squalid poverty, torrid love affairs, and impending violence, their masks will be stripped away. “The most interesting novel of [Greene’s] career.” —The Nation The Man Within: In Greene’s debut novel, Francis Andrews is a reluctant smuggler living in the shadow of his brutish father’s legacy. To exorcise the ghosts of the man he loathes, Andrews betrays his colleagues to authorities and takes flight across the downs. He stumbles upon the isolated cottage of a beguiling stranger named Elizabeth, an empathetic young woman who is just as lonely, every bit the outsider as he, and reconciling a troubling past of her own. On the run from those he exposed, Andrews believes he’s found refuge and salvation. But when Elizabeth encourages him to return to the courts of Lewes and give evidence against his accomplices, the treacherous and deadly repercussions may be beyond their control. “Strikingly original . . . a perfect adventure.” —The Nation
The Collected Novels Volume Four: Travels with My Aunt, The Confidential Agent, and The Ministry of Fear
by Graham GreeneFrom exuberant comedy to edge-of-your-seat intrigue, a trio of novels from &“a superb storyteller&” (The New York Times). These three novels—ranging from a journey of transformation with a larger-than-life aunt to dark tales of international intrigue—beautifully illustrate the myriad ways in which the acclaimed British author &“had wit and grace and character and story and a transcendent universal compassion that places him for all time in the ranks of world literature&” (John le Carré). Travels with my Aunt: Now that dullish London bank manager Henry Pulling has retired with an agreeable pension, he plans to spend more time weeding his dahlias. Then, for the first time in fifty years, he sees his aunt Augusta at his mother&’s funeral. Charging into her seventies with florid abandon, Augusta insists that Henry abandon his garden, follow her, and hold on tight. She whisks her nephew out of Brighton and onto the Orient Express bound for Paris and Istanbul, then on to Paraguay, and down the rabbit hole of her past, which swarms with swindlers, smugglers, war criminals, and rather unconventional lovers. With each new stop, Henry discovers not only more about his aunt and her secrets but also about himself. &“Cheerfully irreverent.&” —The Guardian The Confidential Agent: In prewar England, D., a professor of Romance literature, has arrived in Dover on an important mission 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 romance 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. &“[A] magnificent tour-de-force among tales of international intrigue.&” —The New York Times The Ministry of Fear: On a peaceful Sunday afternoon, Arthur Rowe comes upon a charity fete where he wins a game of chance. If only this were an ordinary day. Britain is under threat by Germany, and the air raid sirens that bring the bazaar to a halt expose Rowe as no ordinary man. Recently released from a psychiatric prison for the mercy killing of his wife, he is burdened by guilt, and now, in possession of a seemingly innocuous prize, on the run from Nazi spies who want him dead. Pursued on a dark odyssey through the bombed-out streets of London, there isn&’t a soul he can trust, not even himself. Because amnesiac Arthur Rowe doesn&’t even know who he really is. &“[A] master thriller.&” —Time
The Collected Novels Volume One: Brighton Rock, The End of the Affair, and Our Man in Havana
by Graham GreeneThree iconic novels from “a superb storyteller with a gift for provoking controversy” (The New York Times). Graham Greene has been hailed as “one of the finest writers of any language” (The Washington Post) and “the ultimate chronicler of twentieth-century man’s conscious and anxiety” (William Golding, author of Lord of the Flies). His extraordinary reputation rests largely on these three superb novels, all of which have been adapted into classic films. Brighton Rock: Seventeen-year-old Pinkie Brown, raised in the prewar Brighton slums, leads a motley pack of gangsters whose small-time scams have erupted in murder. The coverup leads Pinkie to a timid and lovestruck young waitress—his new wife, the key witness to his crimes, and, should she live long enough, his alibi. But loitering in the shadows is another woman—one determined to avenge Pinkie’s latest victim. “Brilliant and uncompromising.” —The New York Times The End of the Affair: Maurice Bendrix, a writer in Clapham during the Blitz, and Sarah Miles, the bored, beautiful wife of a dull civil servant, begin a series of doomed and reckless trysts. After Maurice miraculously survives a bombing, Sarah ends the affair—quickly and without explanation. It’s only when Maurice crosses paths with Sarah’s husband that he discovers the unexpected fallout of their duplicity. “One of the most true and moving novels of my time, in anybody’s language.” —William Faulkner, Nobel Prize–winning author Our Man in Havana: James Wormold, a cash-strapped vacuum cleaner salesman in Havana, finds the answer to his prayers when British Intelligence offers him a lucrative job as an undercover agent. To keep the checks coming, he passes along sketches of secret weapons that look suspiciously like vacuum parts. But when MI6 dispatches a secretary to oversee his endeavors, Wormold fears his fabricated world will come undone. Instead, it all comes true. Somehow, he’s become the target of an assassin, and it’s going to take more than a fib to get out of Cuba alive. “High-comic mayhem . . . weirdly undated . . . [and] bizarrely prescient.” —Christopher Buckley, New York Times–bestselling author
The Collected Novels Volume Three: Orient Express, It’s a Battlefield, and A Gun for Sale
by Graham GreeneThree compelling novels from the British author who has been hailed as “one of the finest writers of any language” (The Washington Post). In these novels of international intrigue and domestic drama, political injustice and crime, and the possibility of redemption, Graham Greene once again emerges as “the ultimate chronicler of twentieth-century man’s consciousness and anxiety” (William Golding, Nobel Prize–winning author of Lord of the Flies). Orient Express: The Orient Express has embarked on a three-day journey from Ostend to Cologne, Vienna, and Constantinople. The passenger list includes a Jewish trader from London with business interests in Turkey—and a score to settle; a vulnerable chorus girl on her last legs; a boozy and spiteful journalist who’s found an unrequited love in her paid companion, and her latest scoop in second class: a Serbian dissident in disguise on his way to lead a revolution; and a murderer on the run looking for a getaway. As the train hurtles across Europe, the fates of everyone on board will collide long before the Orient Express rushes headlong to its final destination. “Interesting and entertaining.” —The New York Times It’s a Battlefield: In pre–World War II London, during a demonstration in Hyde Park, Communist bus driver Jim Drover acts on instinct to protect his wife by stabbing to death the policeman set to strike her down. Sentenced to hang—whether as a martyr, tool, or murderer—Drover accepts his lot, unaware that the ramifications of the crime, and the battle for his reprieve, are inflaming political unrest. But Drover’s single, impulsive act is also upending the lives of the people he loves and trusts. Caught in a quicksand of desperation, sexual betrayal, and guilt, they will not only play a part in Drover’s fate, they’ll become agents—both unwitting and calculated—of their own fates as well. “Adventurous . . . intelligent . . . ingenious.” —V. S. Pritchett A Gun for Sale: Born out of a brutal childhood, Raven is an assassin for hire whose latest hit—a government minister—is calculated to ignite a war. When the most wanted man in England is paid off in marked bills, he also becomes the easiest to track—and police detective Jimmy Mather has the lead. But Raven’s got an advantage. Crossing paths with a sympathetic dancer named Anne Crowder, the emotionally scarred Raven has found someone in the wreckage of his life he can trust, maybe his only hope for salvation. Or at least, escape—because Anne is also Mather’s fiancée. Now the fate of two men will depend on her. And either way, it’s betrayal. “[Greene is] a pioneer of the modern mood we now think of as noir.” —LA Weekly
Los comediantes
by Graham GreeneAdemás de exponer de un modo especialmente sobrecogedor e intensoalgunas de las mayores preocupaciones de Greene y de ser una de susnovelas más violentas, «Los comediantes» ha pasado a la historia como lagran novela sobre el Tahití de Duvalier. Durante la dictadura Duvalier en Tahití, un excandidato a la presidenciade los Estados Unidos y el propietario de un destartalado hotel quemantiene relaciones con la esposa del embajador coinciden y trabanamistad. El hallazgo de un cadáver en el hotel desencadena una serie deacontecimientos que ponen de manifiesto el enloquecido ambiente quereina en la isla caribeña y, al mismo tiempo, obliga a cada uno de lospersonajes a mostrarse como son en realidad.
The Confidential Agent: An Entertainment (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)
by Graham GreeneIn 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).
A Gun for Sale: An Entertainment (The\collected Edition Ser.)
by Graham GreeneA 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). Born out of a brutal childhood, Raven is an assassin for hire whose latest hit—a government minister—is one calculated to ignite a war. When the most wanted man in England is paid off in marked bills, he also becomes the easiest to track—and police detective Jimmy Mather has the lead. But Raven’s got an advantage. Crossing paths with a sympathetic dancer named Anne Crowder, the emotionally scarred Raven has found someone in the wreckage of his life he can trust, maybe his only hope for salvation. Or at least, escape—because Anne is also Mather’s fiancée. Now the fate of two men will depend on her. And either way, it’s betrayal. With its themes of deception, double cross, and the consequences of indiscriminate passion, 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.
Loser Takes All (Classic, 20th-century, Penguin Ser.)
by Graham GreeneA Monte Carlo honeymoon becomes a gamble in Graham Greene’s “superbly well told” comedy of love, marriage, and risk (J. B. Priestley). A modest London accountant on a budget, Mr. Bertram has settled on a honeymoon at the seaside resort of Bournemouth with his fiancée, Cary. However, Bertram’s boss, the solicitous Herbert Dreuther, won’t hear of anything so common. Bertram and Cary are to be married in Monte Carlo, after which they’ll be Dreuther’s guests on his private yacht and sail down the coast of Italy. It sounds too lovely to be true. And surely Bertram can afford one night at the Hôtel de Paris. But when the absentminded Dreuther fails to show, and days turn into weeks, Bertram and Cary find themselves well beyond their means. Unable to check out, trapped in luxury, and with nowhere to turn but the casino, Bertram has a plan—and absolutely no idea what there is left to lose.
The Man Within (Virago Modern Classics)
by Graham GreeneThe “strikingly original” debut novel by the masterful British author is “a perfect adventure” of love and smuggling on the English coast (The Nation). Francis Andrews is a reluctant smuggler living in the shadow of his brutish father’s legacy. To exorcise the ghosts of the man he loathes, Andrews betrays his colleagues to authorities and takes flight across the downs. It’s here that he stumbles upon the isolated cottage of a beguiling stranger named Elizabeth—an empathetic young woman who is just as lonely, every bit the outsider as he, and reconciling a troubling past of her own. Andrews, a man on the run from those he exposed, believes he’s found refuge and salvation. But when Elizabeth encourages him to return to the courts of Lewes and give evidence against his accomplices, the treacherous and deadly repercussions may be beyond their control. “The ultimate strengths of [Graham] Greene’s books is that he shows us the hazards of compassion,” a theme that would find its earliest expression in The Man Within, his first published novel (Pico Iyer).
The Ministry of Fear: An Entertainment (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics #Vol. 10)
by Graham GreeneIn London during the Blitz, an amnesiac must outwit a twisted Nazi plot in this “master thriller” of espionage, murder, and deception (Time). On a peaceful Sunday afternoon, Arthur Rowe comes upon a charity fete in the gardens of a Cambridgeshire vicarage where he wins a game of chance. If only this were an ordinary day. Britain is under threat by Germany, and the air raid sirens that bring the bazaar to a halt expose Rowe as no ordinary man. Recently released from a psychiatric prison for the mercy killing of his wife, he is burdened by guilt, and now, in possession of a seemingly innocuous prize, on the run from a nest of Nazi spies who want him dead. Pursued on a dark odyssey through the bombed-out streets of London, he becomes enmeshed in a tangle of secrets that reach into the dark recesses of his own forgotten past. And there isn’t a soul he can trust, not even himself. Because Arthur Rowe doesn’t even know who he really is. “A storyteller of genius,” Graham Greene composed his serpentine mystery of authentic wartime espionage—and one the author’s personal favorites—while working for MI6 (Evelyn Waugh). But The Ministry of Fear “is more than a mere thriller . . . [it’s a] hypnotic moonstone of a novel” (The New York Times).
Nuestro hombre en La Habana
by Graham GreeneNuestro hombre en La Habana narra las desventuras de un ambiciosocomerciante inglés que intenta sacar el máximo provecho personal delpeculiar encargo que recibe del gobierno británico: proporcionarinformación reservada y fiable al servicio secreto. Situado en la Cubade los años cincuenta, y moviéndose entre el humor y la intriga, setrata sin duda de un rotundo acierto en el que en ningún momento decaela tensión.
Orient Express: Orient Express, It's A Battlefield, And A Gun For Sale (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
by Graham GreeneGreene’s “sharply, often incisively etched” novel of the interlocked fates of unwary strangers on a train from Belgium to Constantinople (The New York Times). The Orient Express has embarked from Ostend for a three-day journey to Cologne, Vienna, and Constantinople. The passenger list includes a Jewish trader from London with business interests in Turkey—and a score to settle; a vulnerable chorus girl on her last legs; a boozy and spiteful journalist who’s found an unrequited love in her paid companion, and her latest scoop in second class—a Serbian dissident in disguise on his way to lead a revolution; and a murderer on the run looking for a getaway. As the train hurtles across Europe, the fates of everyone on board will collide long before the Orient Express rushes headlong to its final destination. Originally published in the UK as Stamboul Train in 1932, Graham Greene’s “novel has movement, variety, interest; taken on the surface, it is an interesting and entertaining story of adventure, penetrated through and through with the consciousness of the on-rushing train, with that curious sense of the temporary suspension of one’s ordinary existence which comes to many on ship or train” (The New York Times).
Our Man in Havana (Twentieth Century Classics Ser.)
by Graham GreeneA hapless salesman in Cuba is recruited into Cold War spy games in Greene’s classic “comical, satirical, atmospherical” novel (The Daily Telegraph). James Wormold, a cash-strapped vacuum cleaner salesman in Havana, finds the answer to his prayers when British Intelligence offers him a lucrative job as an undercover agent. To keep the checks coming, Wormold must at least pretend to know what he’s doing. Soon, he’s apparently deciphering incomprehensible codes, passing along sketches of secret weapons that look suspiciously like vacuum parts, and claiming to recruit fellow operatives from his country club, all to create the perfect picture of intrigue. But when MI6 dispatches a secretary to oversee his endeavors, Wormold fears his carelessly fabricated world will come undone. Instead, it all comes true. Somehow, he’s become the target of an assassin, and it’s going to take more than a fib to get out of Cuba alive. Her Majesty’s man in Havana may have to resort to spying. Named one of the 20 Best Spy Novels of All Time by the Telegraph and adapted into the classic 1959 comedy starring Alec Guinness, Our Man in Havana is “high-comic mayhem . . . weirdly undated . . . [and] bizarrely prescient” (Christopher Buckley, New York Times–bestselling author).