Borrowed this from my father’s library, and was surprised to find I had read it before (in fact, we have a very ancient, dropped in the bath, copy at home).
Greene is great; this is a minor ‘entertainment’ as I think he called them, but no less entertaining for that.
The confidential agent is an unnamed representative of a foreign country embroiled in a nasty civil war trying to buy a coal consignment which will (somehow, I can’t remember) help his side. He fails superficially, but escapes with the love interest in the end.
Greene might be my favourite author; he manages great plots with a lot of very thought-provoking text. So no surprise that I helped myself to other Greene’s from dad’s library.
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