Gripping, terrifying, an unputdownable read. Discover Graham Greene's most iconic novel. A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton.
Seventeen-year-old Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can escape retribution, he is unprepared for the courageous, life-embracing Ida Arnold. Greene's gripping thriller exposes a world of loneliness and fear, of life lived on the 'dangerous edge of things.'In this gripping, terrifying, and unputdownable read, discover Greene's iconic tale of the razor-wielding Pinkie.
This is the story of Francis Andrews, a young man whose betrayal of his fellow smugglers has left a man dead. Fearing vengeance, he flees and takes refuge in the house of a young, isolated woman who persuades him to give evidence against his accomplices in court. But neither she nor Andrews is aware that to both criminals and authority, treachery is as great a crime as smuggling.
Henry Pulling, a retired bank manager, meets his septuagenarian Aunt Augusta for the first time in over fifty years at what he supposes to be his mother's funeral. Soon after, she persuades Henry to abandon Southwood, to travel to Brighton, Paris, Istanbul, Paraguay, and a shiftless, twilight society of hippies, war criminals, CIA men that will help Henry come alive after a dull suburban life.
Into the intrigue and violence of 1950s Indo-China comes CIA agent Alden Pyle, a young idealistic American sent to promote democracy through a mysterious 'Third Force'. As his naive optimism starts to cause bloodshed, his friend Fowler, a cynical foreign correspondent, finds it hard to stand aside and watch.
But even as he intervenes he wonders why: for the greater good, or something altogether more complicated?
A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Seventeen-year-old Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can escape retribution, he is unprepared for the courageous, life-embracing Ida Arnold. Greene's gripping thriller exposes a world of loneliness and fear, of life lived on the 'dangerous edge of things'.
A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Seventeen-year-old Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can escape retribution, he is unprepared for the courageous, life-embracing Ida Arnold.
Graham Greene's gripping thriller was adapted into a British film noir in 1947 starring Richard Attenborough as the razor-wielding Pinkie.
In a prison in Occupied France one in every ten men is to be shot. The prisoners draw lots among themselves - and for rich lawyer Louis Chavel it seems that his whole life has been leading up to an agonising and crucial failure of nerve. Hysterical with panic, fear, and a sense of injustice, he offers to barter everything he owns for someone to take his place.
Graham Greene wrote The Tenth Man in 1944, when he was under a two-year contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and the manuscript lay forgotten in MGM's archives until 1983. It was published two years later with an introduction by the author.
Wormold is a vacuum cleaner salesman in a city of power cuts. When a mysterious Englishman offers him an extra income he's tempted. In return all he has to do is carry out a little espionage and file a few reports. But when his fake reports start coming true things suddenly get more complicated and Havana becomes a threatening place.
Orient Express, legendarny pociąg jadący z Ostendy do Stambułu, zatrzymujący się w najważniejszych miastach Europy. A w nim, co wyjątkowe tej wiosny, niezbyt wielu pasażerów.
Carleton Myatt – żydowski przedsiębiorca, który ma nadzieję zmonopolizować handel rodzynkami nad Bosforem – użycza swojego przydziału biednej tancerce, Coral Musket. Richard Czinner, socjalista z wyrokiem śmierci, jadący incognito do Wiednia. Mabel Warren – dziennikarka, która zwęszyła temat na pierwszą stronę i nie pozwoli mu się wymknąć. Joseph Grunlich – złodziej i morderca, który jeszcze ten jeden raz nie chce dać się złapać…
Ich losy splotą się w ciągu siedemdziesięciu dwóch godzin, które staną się – dla niektórych – sprawdzianem charakteru.
Jedna z najlepszych powieści Grahama Greene’a oparta na prawdziwej historii przyjaciela autora, słynnego kreta KGB, Kima Philby’ego. Sensacyjna fabuła jest pretekstem do gorzkiej refleksji nad losem jednostki uwikłanej w zmagania dwóch potężnych organizacji.
Maurycy Castle, stateczny sześćdziesięciolatek, i Arthur Davis, dandys i gracz, pracują razem w jednej z sekcji wywiadu. Podczas rutynowej z pozoru kontroli jeden z nich zostaje przyłapany z tajnym raportem w teczce. Rozpoczyna się bezwzględne polowanie na zdrajcę. Wkrótce Castle i Davis przekonają się, że uleganie jakimkolwiek uczuciom — miłości, nienawiści, strachowi — jest w tej grze bardzo ryzykowne. Może kosztować wolność, a nawet życie...
Bestsellerową powieść Greene’a przeniósł na ekran Otto Preminger. W rolach głównych wystąpili Richard Attenborough, John Gielgud i Derek Jacobi.
Somewhere in shadowy post-war Vienna, where everyone has something to sell on the black market, lurks "the third man" who witnessed the murder of Harry Lime. Novelist Holly Martins is haunted by the death of his friend. His search for the killer makes electrifying drama, in this witty and sophisticated adaptation of the Graham Greene novel.
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