A Gun for Sale (Vintage Classics)

Author: Greene, Graham

Brand: Vintage Classics

Binding: paperback

Number Of Pages: 208

Release Date: 30-05-2001

Details: Product Description
Raven is a ruthless assassin, a hired killer, whose cold-blooded murder of the Minister for War will have violent repercussions across Europe. As the nation prepares for battle, Raven goes on the run, hunted by the police and in search of the man who paid him in stolen banknotes, eventually unearthing the terrible truth behind his deadly assignment.
Review
Graham Greene taught us to understand the social and economic cripples in our midst. He taught us to look at each other with new eyes. I don't suppose his influence will ever disappear -- Auberon Waugh ―
Independent

A masterly storyteller... An enormously popular writer who was also one of the most significant novelists of his time ―
Newsweek

Graham Greene had wit and grace and character and story and a transcendent universal compassion that places him for all time in the ranks of world literature -- John Le Carre
From the Inside Flap
Raven is an assassin, a hired killer, and his brutal murder of the Minister of War raises the spectre of war across Europe.
From the Back Cover
“Graham Greene had wit and grace and character and story and a transcendent universal compassion that places him for all time in the ranks of world literature.” –John Le Carré
About the Author
Graham Greene was born in 1904. He worked as a journalist and critic, and in 1940 became literary editor of the
Spectator. He was later employed by the Foreign Office. As well as his many novels, Graham Greene wrote several collections of short stories, four travel books, six plays, three books of autobiography, two of biography and four books for children. He also wrote hundreds of essays, and film and book reviews. Graham Greene was a member of the Order of Merit and a Companion of Honour. He died in April 1991.

EAN: 9780099286141

Package Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.0 x 0.8 inches

Languages: English