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Binding: Audio CassetteDewey Decimal Number: 813 EAN: 9780754007975 Edition: Unabridged Format: Audiobook, Unabridged ISBN: 0754007979 Label: Chivers Audio Books Manufacturer: Chivers Audio Books Number Of Items: 8 Publication Date: 2002-05 Publisher: Chivers Audio Books Studio: Chivers Audio Books Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: A morally complex and mature work from a modern master IN THIS later novel by Graham Greene featuring a new introductionthe author continues to explore moral and theological dilemmas through psychologically astute character studies and exciting drama on an international stage. In The Human Factor A high- level operative of the British Secret Service acts as a double agent to benefit his family. Average Rating:
 Rating: - The traitors among us.Most popular espionage novels, those written by Frederick Forsyth for example, feature intelligence agents with remarkable skills. Men and women who interact with their equally skilled enemy counterparts as if espionage and counter espionage were games of three dimensional chess and all parties involved grandmasters. The Human Factor by Graham Greene is a completely different kind of spy novel. The smoothly written narrative of this very entertaining Cold War work concerns itself not with ... Read More Rating: - Late Work, But Not Too ShabbyGraham Greene (1904-1991), who was one of the more illustrious British writers of the 20th century, enjoyed a very long life, and a long, prolific writing career, during which he gave us "The Power and The Glory,""The Third Man," "The End of the Affair,"and "Our Man in Havana," among many other well-known masterworks. The author, in fact, bookended the life, and writing career, of another very-well known British author of spy novels, Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond, 007. Furthermore, Greene was ... Read More Rating: - No Good Deed Goes UnpunishedThe craftsmanship in THE HUMAN FACTOR is superb, with Greene creating a carefully balanced cast of characters whose decisions and actions regarding marriage, friendship, professional integrity, and basic morality strike rich contrasts with those of Maurice Castle, this novel's protagonist. Further, the novel contains Greene's usual deft irony, particularly in the denouement, where Greene, with just a few quick strokes, is able to show the principled actions of Castle as the equivalent of futile self ... Read More Rating:  - Disappointing For what it is, and when it was written, this is not a bad book at all. However, I think by today's standards it's a bit of a let down. Personally, I was looking for something more like Forsyth, with action and plot twists as well as details about the intelligence world, and was disappointed. Rating: - Disappointing For what it is, and when it was written, this is not a bad book at all. However, I think by today's standards it's a bit of a let down. Personally, I was looking for something more like Forsyth, with action and plot twists as well as details about the intelligence world, and was disappointed. 
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