Graham Greene A Gun for Sale

About A Gun for Sale

Graham Greene's A Gun for Sale (1936), published in the US as This Gun for Hire, is his most hard-boiled entertainment: the story of Raven, a harelipped professional killer who assassinates a European minister to start a war and then discovers he has been paid in stolen banknotes. Organized around parallel hunts — police hunting Raven, Raven hunting his paymasters — it established Greene as a master of the British political thriller.