A taut political thriller
GREENE, Graham. The Ministry of Fear. London: William Heinemann Ltd. 1963.
8vo. Publisher’s red cloth lettered in gilt to spine, illustrated dust jacket designed by Peter Edwards with the printed price of 16s to front flap; pp. [6], 268, [2, (blank)]; slight wearing to dust jacket edges with a small tear to hinge of back flap, rubbing to gilt at spine, slight rolling to crown and base of spine, very minor spotting to top edge of text block, minor marking to front pastedown; very good.
Reprinted edition of Greene’s taut political thriller.
Acknowledged to be a hugely authoritative 20th century novelist, Graham Greene's The Ministry of Fear is a political thriller or, what he preferred to call, one of his many “entertainments”: the work which he distinguished from his other “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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