Sunday, December 14, 2008

#83. The Third Man


Title - The Third Man (1950)
Author - Graham Greene
Runtime - Six Hours [Unabridged]
Language Variety- North American English
Genre- Fiction

Book Description

The Third Man
is a thrilling story of black-marketeering set against a backdrop of Vienna in the immediate post-war era, when the city was divided into four zones amongst the major powers: Russia, Britain, France, and America.It is written in the first person from the point of view of the British chief of police, the part played in the film by Trevor Howard. He is investigating the death of Harry Lime when Rollo Martins, a writer of Westerns, arrives in Vienna to visit his old school friend and gets inextricably involved in the mystery.