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The "strikingly original" debut novel by the masterful British author is "a perfect adventure" of love and smuggling on the English coast ( The Nation ). Francis Andrews is a reluctant smuggler living in the shadow of his brutish father's legacy. To exorcise the ghosts of the man he loathes, Andrews betrays his colleagues to authorities and takes flight across the downs. It's here that he stumbles upon the isolated cottage of a beguiling stranger...
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A hapless salesman in Cuba is recruited into Cold War spy games in Greene's classic "comical, satirical, atmospherical" novel ( The Daily Telegraph ). James Wormold, a cash-strapped vacuum cleaner salesman in Havana, finds the answer to his prayers when British Intelligence offers him a lucrative job as an undercover agent. To keep the checks coming, Wormold must at least pretend to know what he's doing. Soon, he's apparently deciphering incomprehensible...
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Open Road Media
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[2018]
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Greene's sharply, often incisively etched novel of the interlocked fates of unwary strangers on a train from Belgium to Constantinople ( The New York Times ). The Orient Express has embarked from Ostend for a three-day journey to Cologne, Vienna, and Constantinople. The passenger list includes a Jewish trader from London with business interests in Turkeyand a score to settle; a vulnerable chorus girl on her last legs; a boozy and spiteful journalist...
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