Fiction
The Honorary Consul.
Greene sets this novel in a dusty Argentine town where a British consul with a drinking problem is kidnapped by revolutionaries who wanted someone else. What follows is less a thriller than a meditation on failure, loyalty, and the small consolations of whiskey and adultery. The prose moves with Greene's usual efficiency; he never wastes a sentence pretending his characters are better than they are. This paperback has the feel of a book that has been read in hotel rooms. For readers who take their moral ambiguity with a twist of lime and who know that the most interesting people are usually the ones making a mess of things.
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