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The Ministry of Fear

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Author: Graham Greene  

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A detective story where the detective is implicated in the crime and the hero is an enigma to the reader and to himself.

For Arthur Rowe the charity fête was a trip back to childhood, to innocence, a welcome chance to escape the terror of the Blitz, to forget twenty years of his past and a murder.

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A detective story where the detective is implicated in the crime and the hero is an enigma to the reader and to himself.

For Arthur Rowe the charity fête was a trip back to childhood, to innocence, a welcome chance to escape the terror of the Blitz, to forget twenty years of his past and a murder.

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A detective story where the detective is implicated in the crime and the hero is an enigma to the reader and to himself.For Arthur Rowe the charity fate was a trip back to childhood, to innocence, a welcome chance to escape the terror of the Blitz, to forget twenty years of his past and a murder. Then he guesses the weight of the cake, and from that moment on he's a hunted man, the target of shadowy killers, on the run and struggling to remember and to find the truth.

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Critic Reviews

“"Opening a new book by Graham Greene is like settling into a grand turismo car. Nothing will go wrong." Sunday Times”

Opening a new book by Graham Greene is like settling into a gran turismo car. Nothing will go wrong Sunday Times
One of the finest writers of any language Washington Post
Greene was a force beyond his books -- Melvyn Bragg
The most ingenious, inventive and exciting of our novelists The Times
No serious writer of this century has more thoroughly invaded and shaped the public imagination than did Graham Greene The Times

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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.

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Product Details

Publisher
Vintage Publishing | Vintage Classics
Published
5th July 2001
Pages
224
ISBN
9780099286189

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