Graham Greene The Ministry of Fear

About The Ministry of Fear

Graham Greene's The Ministry of Fear (1943) is his most nightmarish entertainment — a wartime London thriller set during the Blitz, in which Arthur Rowe, a mercy killer haunted by the wife he poisoned, finds himself at the center of a Nazi spy ring. One of the darkest and most psychologically complex of Greene's entertainments, organized around loss of memory and the question of whether the past can be genuinely buried.