Tuesday, September 30, 2008

#51. The Quiet American


Title - The Quiet American (1955)
Author - Graham Greene
Runtime - Seven Hours [Unabridged]
Language Variety- British English
Genre- Fiction

Book Description

The Quiet American is one of Greene's later books, written in 1955, and draws on his experiences as an SIS agent spying for Britain in World War II in Sierra Leone in the early 1940s and on winters spent from 1951 to 1954 in Saigon reporting on the French colonial war for The Times and Le Figaro.