- Fiction, Gangsters, Organized crime, Psychopaths
An atmospheric crime thriller featuring a teenage sociopath intent on becoming the underworld boss of Brighton. Having murdered a man who had betrayed his gang the young gangster Pinky Brown tries to covers his tracks but circumstances never seem to go his way and he becomes ever more desperate, even going so far as to marry a young girl who witnessed the shooting, it being the law at that time that a man’s wife could not be forced to testify against him.
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- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
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- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- Graham Greene
- First published
- 1938
- Pages
- 311
- Publisher
- VINTAGE, BANTAM. NY 1949, THE BODLEY HEAD LTD
- Editions
- 106
- Language
- und, English, Swedish, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9780099478478
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“HALE knew, before he had been in Brighton three hours, that they meant to murder him.”
Henry Graham Greene (2 October 1904 – 3 April 1991) was an English writer and journalist regarded by many as one of the leading novelists of the 20th century. Combining literary acclaim with widespread popularity, Greene acquired a reputation early in his lifetime as a major writer, both of serious Catholic novels, and of thrillers. He was shortlisted for the Nobel Prize in Literature several times. Through 67 years of writing, which included over 25 novels, he explored the conflicting moral and political issues of the modern world. *The Power and the Glory* won the 1941 Hawthornden Prize and *The Heart of the Matter* won the 1948 James Tait Black Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the B
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