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- English
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The Confidential Agent
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In Greene's "magnificent tour-de-force among tales of international intrigue, " rival agents engage in a deadly game of cat and mouse in prewar England ( The New York Times ). D., a widowed professor of Romance literature, has arrived in Dover on a peaceful yet important mission. He's to negotiate a contract to buy coal for his country, one torn by civil war. With it, there's a chance to defeat fascist influences. Without it, the loyalists will fail. When D. strikes up a romantic acquaintance with the estranged but solicitous daughter of a powerful coal-mining magnate, everything appears to be in his favorâif not for a counteragent who has come to England with the intent of sabotaging every move he makes. Accused of forgery and theft, and roped into a charge of murder, D. becomes a hunted man, hemmed in at every turn by an ever-tightening net of intrigue and double cross, with no one left to trust but himself. Written during the height of the Spanish Civil War, Graham Greene's "exciting... kaleidoscopic affair" was the basis for the classic 1945 thriller starring Charles Boyer and Lauren Bacall ( The Sunday Times ).
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Dedication
- Part One: The Hunted
- Part Two: The Hunter
- Part Three: The Last Shot
- Part Four: The End
- About the Author
- Copyright