HOME View All Genre

Book

Audiobook

GENRES 🌙 Dark

It's a Battlefield - Graham Greene

By Graham Greene

Release Date: 2018-05-15

Genre: Mysteries & Thrillers

(0 ratings)
Read Download
An "adventurous . . . intelligent . . . ingenious" novel of crime and punishment in pre-World War II London (V.S. Pritchett, author of The Sailor and The Saint).

During a demonstration in Hyde Park, Communist bus driver Jim Drover acts on instinct to protect his wife by stabbing to death the policeman set to strike her down. Sentenced to hang—whether as a martyr, tool, or murderer—Drover accepts his lot, unaware that the ramifications for the crime, and the battle for his reprieve, are inflaming political unrest in an increasingly divided city. But Drover's single, impulsive act is also upending the lives of the people he loves and trusts. Caught in a quicksand of desperation, sexual betrayal, and guilt, they will not only play a part in Drover's fate, but they'll become agents—both unwitting and calculated—of their own fates as well.

Turning the traditional narrative of the police procedural, domestic drama, and political thriller on its head, It's a Battlefield was described by Graham Greene himself as "a panoramic novel of London," one without heroes and villains, only "the injustice of man's justice."

Praise for Graham Greene

"A masterly storyteller." —Newsweek

"The ultimate chronicler of twentieth-century . . .consciousness and anxiety." —William Golding, Nobel Prize–winning author of Lord of the Flies

"A superb storyteller with a gift for provoking controversy." —The New York Times

"One of the finest writers of any language." —The Washington Post

It's a Battlefield - Graham Greene

By Graham Greene

Release Date: 2018-05-15

Genre: Mysteries & Thrillers

(0 ratings)
Read Download
An "adventurous . . . intelligent . . . ingenious" novel of crime and punishment in pre-World War II London (V.S. Pritchett, author of The Sailor and The Saint).

During a demonstration in Hyde Park, Communist bus driver Jim Drover acts on instinct to protect his wife by stabbing to death the policeman set to strike her down. Sentenced to hang—whether as a martyr, tool, or murderer—Drover accepts his lot, unaware that the ramifications for the crime, and the battle for his reprieve, are inflaming political unrest in an increasingly divided city. But Drover's single, impulsive act is also upending the lives of the people he loves and trusts. Caught in a quicksand of desperation, sexual betrayal, and guilt, they will not only play a part in Drover's fate, but they'll become agents—both unwitting and calculated—of their own fates as well.

Turning the traditional narrative of the police procedural, domestic drama, and political thriller on its head, It's a Battlefield was described by Graham Greene himself as "a panoramic novel of London," one without heroes and villains, only "the injustice of man's justice."

Praise for Graham Greene

"A masterly storyteller." —Newsweek

"The ultimate chronicler of twentieth-century . . .consciousness and anxiety." —William Golding, Nobel Prize–winning author of Lord of the Flies

"A superb storyteller with a gift for provoking controversy." —The New York Times

"One of the finest writers of any language." —The Washington Post

More by Graham Greene

The End of the Affair

The Power and the Glory

Our Man in Havana

The Quiet American

The Quiet American

Travels with My Aunt

The Third Man

The Ministry of Fear

The Comedians

The Heart of the Matter

Twenty-One Stories

A Burnt-Out Case

Orient Express

The Confidential Agent

Brighton Rock

Brighton Rock

The End of the Affair: A Novel

Travels with My Aunt

The Human Factor

The Spy's Bedside Book

The Third Man

The Man Within

The Third Man and The Fallen Idol

The Power and the Glory

The Collected Novels Graham Greene

The Quiet American

The Ministry of Fear

A Gun for Sale

The Man Within

Journey Without Maps

The Quiet American

Our Man in Havana

Loser Takes All

The Heart of the Matter

May We Borrow Your Husband?

The Captain and the Enemy

The Lost Childhood

It's a Battlefield

Stamboul Train

Monsignor Quixote

The Classic Collection of Graham Greene (13 Books). Illustrated

The Tenth Man

The Collected Novels Volume One

The Collected Novels Volume Four

The Lawless Roads

The Collected Novels Volume Two

The Potting Shed

Short Stories

A World of My Own

The Honorary Consul

Related Articles