The Ministry of Fear

Description

For Arthur Rowe the charity fete was a trip back to childhood, to innocence, a welcome chance to escape the terror of the Blitz, to forget twenty years of his past and a murder...Then he guesses the weight of the cake, and from that moment on he's a hunted man, the target of shadowy killers, on the run and struggling to remember and to find the truth.

Graham Greene was born in 1904. He worked as a journalist and critic, and in 1940 became literary editor of the Spectator. He was later employed by the Foreign Office. As well as his many novels, Graham Greene wrote several collections of short stories, four travel books, six plays, three books of autobiography, two of biography and four books for children. He also wrote hundreds of essays, and film and book reviews. Graham Greene was a member of the Order of Merit and a Companion of Honour. He died in April 1991.

Opening a new book by Graham Greene is like settling into a gran turismo car. Nothing will go wrong * Sunday Times * One of the finest writers of any language * Washington Post * Greene was a force beyond his books -- Melvyn Bragg The most ingenious, inventive and exciting of our novelists * The Times * No serious writer of this century has more thoroughly invaded and shaped the public imagination than did Graham Greene * The Times *