A Gun for Sale: An Entertainment (The collected edition)

by Graham Greene

Raven is a ruthless assassin, a hired killer, whose cold-blooded murder of the Minister for War will have violent repercussions across Europe. As the nation prepares for battle, Raven goes on the run, hunted by the police and in search of the man who paid him in stolen banknotes, eventually unearthing the terrible truth behind his deadly assignment.

• ISBN10: 0370014812
• ISBN13: 9780370014814
• Publish Date: 1 January 1973 (first published December 1948)
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 18 October 2003
• Publish Country: GB
• Publisher: Vintage Publishing
• Imprint: The Bodley Head Ltd
• Edition: Collected ed
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 228
• Language: English

Reviews

[brokentune]

"MURDER DIDN’T MEAN much to Raven. It was just a new job . You had to be careful. You had to use your brains. It was not a question of hatred. He had only seen the Minister once: he had been pointed out to Raven as he walked down the new housing estate between the small lit Christmas trees, an old grubby man without friends , who was said to love humanity."

Another one of Greene's crime thrillers - complete with murder, a man-hunt, a girly side-kick, an evil mastermind, and a main character who is torn apart by life's indifference.

"The only problem when you were once born was to get out of life more neatly and expeditiously than you had entered it."

I'm so ready to move past this "early" stage of Greene's writing. Luckily, I think there's only Brighton Rock left before embarking onto to a different theme.


Review originally posted on BookLikes: http://brokentune.booklikes.com/post/993955/a-gun-for-sale