The Collected Novels, Volume One

Graham Greene's extraordinary reputation rests largely on these three superb novels, all of which have been adapted into classic films. Brighton Rock: Seventeen-year-old Pinkie Brown, raised in the prewar Brighton slums, leads a motley pack of gangsters whose small-time scams have erupted in murder. The cover-up leads Pinkie to a timid and love-struck young waitress-his new wife, the key witness to his crimes, and, should she live long enough, his alibi. But loitering in the shadows is another woman-one determined to avenge Pinkie's latest victim.