Despite my mixed response to Greene in this text, I found this one, bent and out of shape from having been read and it appears dropped in the bath in the past, very good.
It seems to be quite a late novel, set possibly in the 1970's or later - I didn't think he had gone on writing that long.
Set again in South America, the honorary consul is a dissolute Englishman who has married a teenage whore from the local brothel. She has a much younger lover Dr Parr, the central figure.
The consul is kidnapped, in error, by a group of guerrillas who include a married priest. So it's all typical Greene territory. It is parr, not the consul, who is murdered by the local police at the end leaving the consul to find redemption with his wife and Parr's son, with whom she is pregnant.
That summary does it no justice at all; there is some wonderful dialogue between the priest, who is seriously disillusioned both with the church and with his own cause, and the consul, who is equally disillusioned about most things.
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