Book description
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY PAUL THEROUX
Three men meet on a ship bound for Haiti, a world in the grip of the
corrupt 'Papa Doc' and the Tontons Macoute, his sinister secret
police. Brown the hotelier, Smith the innocent American and Jones the
confidence man - these are the 'comedians' of Graham Greene's title.
Hiding behind their actors' masks, they hesitate on the edge of life.
And, to begin with, they are men afraid of love, afraid of pain,
afraid of fear itself...
Graham Greene was born in Hertfordshire in 1904. While at Balliol
College, Oxford he published his first book of verse. He continued to
write throughout his lifetime, and served with the Secret Intelligence
Service during the Second World War. He was a member of the Order of
Merit and a Companion of Honour. Among the many people who paid tribute
to him on his death was Kingsley Amis: 'He will be missed all over the
world. Until today, he was our greatest living novelist.' He died in
1991.
