Triple Pursuit! A Graham Greene Omnibus by Graham Greene

Description

Bibliographic Details

• Author: Graham Greene
• Title: Triple Pursuit! A Graham Greene Omnibus
• Publisher: ‎ Viking Press; First Edition (June 1971)
• Language: ‎ English
• Format: Hardcover – 435 pages‏
• ISBN-10: 0670731269 
• ISBN-13: 978-0670731268
• Item Weight: ‎ 1.65 pounds
• Dimensions: 5.75 X 1.7 x 8.54 inches
• Book Condition: Used – Very Good / Rare Collectible (may show some mild tanning on top edges)
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good (may show some minor shelf / handling wear)
• Edition: First Edition

Synopsis:

This Gun For Hire is a 1942 American film noir crime film directed by Frank Tuttle and starring Veronica Lake, Robert Preston, Laird Cregar, and Alan Ladd. It is based on the 1936 novel A Gun for Sale by Graham Greene (published in America with the same title as the film).

Raven is a man dedicated to ugly deeds. When Raven is paid for killing the Minister of War with stolen notes, he becomes a man on the run. Tracking down the agent who double-crossed him, and eluding the police simultaneously, he becomes both the hunter and the hunted.

Originally published as "A Gun for Sale," it was retitled for U.S. publication and the 1941 film starring Alan Ladd.

The Third Man revolves around Rollo Martins whose usual line is the writing of cheap paperback Westerns under the name of Buck Dexter. But when his old friend Harry Lime invites him to Vienna, he jumps at the chance.

With exactly five pounds in his pocket, he arrives only just in time to make it to his friend's funeral. The victim of an apparently banal street accident, the late Mr. Lime, it seems, had been the focus of a criminal investigation, suspected of nothing less than being "the worst racketeer who ever made a dirty living in this city."

Martins is determined to clear his friend's name, and begins an investigation of his own…

Our Man in Havana, set in Cuba under the Batista regime, was published in 1958 – one year before Castro's revolution in 1959. This comedy thriller focuses on Havana-based vacuum cleaner salesman James Wormold, an Englishman.

The story revolves around Wormold's reluctant role in the British Secret Service as 'Our Man in Havana', a post he accepts to fund the spendthrift habits of his beloved daughter.

According to some conspiracy theorists, the novel presaged the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, which many people feared could have led to World War Three.

About the Author:

Henry Graham Greene OM CH (2 October 1904 – 3 April 1991) was an English novelist and author regarded by some as one of the great writers of the 20th century.

Combining literary acclaim with widespread popularity, Greene acquired a reputation early in his lifetime as a major writer, both of serious Catholic novels, and of thrillers (or "entertainments" as he termed them). He was shortlisted, in 1967, for the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Through 67 years of writings, which included over 25 novels, he explored the ambivalent moral and political issues of the modern world, often through a Catholic perspective.

Known for his espionage thrillers set in exotic locales, Graham Greene is the writer who launched a thousand travel journalists. But although Greene produced some unabashedly commercial works — he called them ""entertainments,"" to distinguish them from his novels — even his escapist fiction is rooted in the gritty realities he encountered around the globe.