Stamboul Train
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:7th Oct '04
Should be back in stock very soon
'A very remarkable piece of work, splendidly written, exciting, disturbing.' L. P. Hartley
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Carleton Myatt meets Coral Musker, a naive English chorus girl, aboard the Orient Express as it heads across Europe to Constantinople. As their relationship develops, they find themselves caught up in the fates of the other passengers and drawn into a web of espionage, murder and lies...
A classic espionage thriller from master storyteller Graham Greene
‘One of the most important British writers of the twentieth century - he brought something undeniably new to fiction’ Daily Telegraph
Carleton Myatt meets Coral Musker, a naïve English chorus girl, aboard the Orient Express as it heads across Europe to Constantinople. As their relationship develops, they find themselves caught up in the fates of the other passengers and drawn into a web of espionage, murder and lies.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
He taught us to look at each other with new eyes. I don't suppose his influence will ever disappear -- Auberon Waugh * Independent *
Graham Greene had wit and grace and character and story and a transcendent universal compassion that places him for all time in the ranks of world literature -- John Le Carre
No serious writer of this century had more thoroughly invaded and shaped the public imagination than did Graham Greene * The Times *
A tour de force... The realist and the romantic struggle with each other in this book, making it a kind of mental battlefield, inducing a sense of breathlessness and urgency -- L. P. Hartley
One of the most important British writers of the twentieth century - he brought something undeniably new to fiction * Daily Telegraph *
ISBN: 9780099478362
Dimensions: 197mm x 129mm x 14mm
Weight: 163g
224 pages