A taut political thriller
GREENE, Graham. The Ministry of Fear. London: William Heinemann Ltd. 1963.
8vo. Original red cloth bound boards lettered in gilt with wraparound pictorial dust jacket; (6) 268 (2); dust wrapper slightly nicked at corners; minor stain to front pastedown; internally clean, near fine copy.
Reprint, first published in 1943. Acknowledged to be a hugely authoritative 20th century novelist, Graham Greene's The Ministry of Fear is a taut political thriller or what he preferred to call one of his many 'entertainments'; work which he distinguished from his other many 'novels'. Famed for his excavation of the political issues of the modern world, his writing also demonstrates significant Catholic undercurrents despite his rejection of the title "Catholic novelist", particularly in Brighton Rock, 1938 and The End of The Affair, 1951 .
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