Brighton Rock Preface / Random House Johns was a collection of

Johns was a collection of short stories

A first novel about a northern cad's education at Cambridge University and his rise through commercial and political spheres in the city

The perpetrator has no recognisable MO

he ventures out into this unrecognisable world

sinking on a Moldavian lake

Brighton Rock Preface / Random House Johns was a collection ofA gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Seventeen year old Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can escape retribution, he is unprepared for the courageous, life embracing Ida Arnold. Greene's gripping thriller, exposes a world of loneliness and fear, of life lived on the 'dangerous edge of things'. 'I read Brighton Rock when I was about thirteen. One of the first lessons I took from it was that a serious