- Published: 2 January 2012
- ISBN: 9780099529149
- Imprint: Vintage Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 192
- RRP: $24.99
The Captain and the Enemy
- Published: 2 January 2012
- ISBN: 9780099529149
- Imprint: Vintage Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 192
- RRP: $24.99
One of the two or three novelists who really count
V.S. Pritchett
A slim and curious tale
The Times
At once Dickensian and new, an exploration of the soul of a young boy and a portrait of sad loving by memorable adults
Chicago Tribune
In this short, skillful book we enter those disparate worlds Greene has made his own - the England of Brighton Rock and the exotic Central American territories in which his restless talent has so often roamed
New York Times
A rattling good yarn. Under the spur of Greene's sharp, light touch, its narrative gallops along. Opening with a chase across a playground, rapidly followed by an abduction, it nimbly twists and turns through a maze of imposture, jewel robbery and fleeings from the law before leaping overseas for a final burst of international espionage, weapon-smuggling, freedom fighting and political murder
Sunday Times
Purely enjoyable...a small miracle of construction
Guardian