The Comedians

Three men meet on a ship bound for Haiti, a world in the grip of the corrupt “Papa Doc” and the Tontons Macoute, his sinister secret police. Brown the hotelier, Smith the innocent American, and Jones the confidence man–these are the “comedians” of Greene’s title. Hiding behind their actors’ masks, they hesitate on the edge of life. They are men afraid of love, afraid of pain, afraid of fear itself…

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Author: Graham Greene
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: 02/01/2005
Series: Penguin Classics
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.48lbs
Size: 7.86h x 5.06w x 0.55d
ISBN: 9780143039198
Language: English