Graham Greene - The Quiet American

Written by Graham Greene. Themes include Fiction, Classics, Historical, Literary, Psychological.

Discover Graham Green’s prescient political masterpiece

‘The novel that I love the most is The Quiet American’ Ian Mcewan

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?

With An Introduction By Zadie Smith

**One of the Bbc’s 100 Novels That Shaped Our World**

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