Graham Greene The Captain and the Enemy

About The Captain and the Enemy

Graham Greene's The Captain and the Enemy (1988) is his final novel — a slim, enigmatic last statement following Victor Baxter, won at twelve in a game of backgammon by a man called the Captain. Narrated forty years later, Victor tries to understand who the Captain was and what his relationship with Liza meant. Organized around gaps and mysteries that are never fully explained, it has the quality of a dream — a valediction to fifty years of Greene's fiction.