Graham Greene The Confidential Agent

About The Confidential Agent

Graham Greene's The Confidential Agent (1939) is one of his most concentrated entertainments — a political thriller written in six weeks about a Spanish civil war agent who comes to England to buy coal for the republican government and finds himself in a nightmare of failure. Written simultaneously with The Power and the Glory, it stars D., an academic medievalist turned reluctant spy trying to maintain a code of decency in a world that no longer uses one.