Pretty good. A relatively early Greene, about a rail trip from London to Istanbul in the 1930’s.
As the train progresses — Ostende, Cologne, Vienna, Subotica (a real place, stop was supposed to be Belgrade) — the various characters get drawn into the plot and interactions.
The main characters are the revolutionary Yugoslav Dr Czinner, travelling back, he hoped, incognito, the girl he meets on the train Coral Browne, her lover Myatt, the Jewish currant importer and the wonderful old gay alcoholic journalist Mabel Warren.
This would make a good period film, perhaps the ending a little weak but the death of Dr Czinner with Coral in the railway siding is moving.
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