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- Published: 1 August 2011
- ISBN: 9781407086590
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 160
The Tenth Man
Formats & editions
- Published: 1 August 2011
- ISBN: 9781407086590
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 160
Greene was a past master of the psychological thriller and this was no exception
Observer
Typically full of psychological obsession and tricks of perspective, this short story plays games with the concepts of identity and freedom. Threaded through with paranoiac attempts to be sure of time, life, and death, the story ends with impenetrable paradox; with a tragedy and a travesty, a revenge and a redressal, truth and the ultimate lie
The Times
All of the Greene hallmarks are there: pace, ingenuity, a sense of profundities suggested but never insisted upon
Penelope Lively, Sunday Telegraph
A masterpiece - tapped out in the lean, sharp prose that film work taught Greene to perfect
Sunday Times