By assassinating a foreign Minister of War Raven improves the market for armaments. He is paid in stolen notes. Bent on revenge, he traces the parties involved to a Midland city, with the police on his heels. In this tortuous double hunt the outlaw becomes the weapon of a kind of social justice.
Graham Greene is very rarely read for laughs and here he makes you feel very uncomfortable. The 'killer' is a product of his environment something that is now being realized in society,this is particularly insightful seeing as this was written in 1936.
As always with Greene there is a sort of redemption for some characters at the end but as a blurb on this edition says: ".... a book which you may put down, but which you will not easily put out of your mind".
Reading Greene is never a waste of time.
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