October Reads Worth Falling For Danger, desire, second chances, and unexpected romanceβdiscover this monthβs Fresh Fiction Featured Books.
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The Tenth Man Our Man in Havana The Lawless Roads Journey Without Maps The Man Within The Ministry of Fear Complete Short Stories The Comedians Travels with My Aunt Brighton Rock The Quiet American Orient Express The End of the Affair The Power and the Glory My Silent War Fallen Idol The Honorary Consul The Heart of the Matter The Last Word and Other Stories The Third Man and The Fallen Idol The Human Factor
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"Hale knew, before he had been in Brighton three hours, that they meant to murder him..." nnGraham Greene's chilling exposΓ© of violence and gang warfare in the pre-war underworld is a classic of its kind. nnPinkie, the teenage gangster, is devoid of compassion or human feeling, despising weakness of the spirit or of the flesh. Responsible for the razor slashes that killed Kite and also for the death of Hale, he is the embodiment of calculated evil. As a Catholic, however, he is convinced that his retribution does not lie in human hands.
nHe is therefore not prepared for Ida Arnold, Hale's avenging angel. Ida, whose allegiance is with life, the here and now, has her own ideas about the circumstances surrounding Hale's death. For the sheer joy of it she takes up the challenge of bringing the infernal Pinkie to an earthly kind of justice.
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