- Published: 30 November 2011
- ISBN: 9781448128891
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 192
The Captain and the Enemy
- Published: 30 November 2011
- ISBN: 9781448128891
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 192
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
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
One of the two or three novelists who really count
V.S. Pritchett
Purely enjoyable...a small miracle of construction
Guardian