Graham Greene The Human Factor

About The Human Factor

Graham Greene's The Human Factor (1978) is his final major novel and most direct engagement with Cold War espionage — Maurice Castle, an intelligence officer who leaks to the KGB not from ideology but personal loyalty to the South Africans who helped him smuggle his wife out of apartheid. Greene's most explicit statement of his career-long theme: that personal loyalty is the only morality that survives institutional corruption.