The most ingenious, inventive and exciting of our novelists, rich in exactly etched and moving portraits of real human beings' V. S. Pritchett, The Times 'A superb storyteller with a gift for provoking controversy' New York Times 'Graham Greene had w it and grace and character and story and a transcendent universal compassion that places him for all time in the ranks of world literature' John le Carre --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.