The Honorary Consul
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded, with some chipping and wear to edges and corners. some tears; price clipped. Page Condition: Likely yellowed given age. Markings: name penned on fep. Binding: Appears intact and firm as a hardcover.
Set in a small Argentine town on the border with Paraguay, The Honorary Consul is a taut, morally complex thriller from one of the twentieth century's most celebrated novelists. When a group of Paraguayan guerrillas botches a kidnapping — accidentally seizing a minor British official, Charley Fortnum, instead of the intended American ambassador — a quiet provincial doctor named Eduardo Plarr is drawn into a web of political intrigue, guilt, and dangerous loyalty. Greene masterfully chronicles the collision of personal relationships and revolutionary idealism, weaving together themes of friendship, betrayal, faith, and the futility of violence. Written with Greene's characteristic cool intelligence and dark irony, the novel presents a meditation on complicity and conscience against the backdrop of South American political turmoil.
Author: Graham Greene
Format: Hardback
Published: 1973, The Bodley Head
Genre: Fiction
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded, with some chipping and wear to edges and corners. some tears; price clipped. Page Condition: Likely yellowed given age. Markings: name penned on fep. Binding: Appears intact and firm as a hardcover.
Set in a small Argentine town on the border with Paraguay, The Honorary Consul is a taut, morally complex thriller from one of the twentieth century's most celebrated novelists. When a group of Paraguayan guerrillas botches a kidnapping — accidentally seizing a minor British official, Charley Fortnum, instead of the intended American ambassador — a quiet provincial doctor named Eduardo Plarr is drawn into a web of political intrigue, guilt, and dangerous loyalty. Greene masterfully chronicles the collision of personal relationships and revolutionary idealism, weaving together themes of friendship, betrayal, faith, and the futility of violence. Written with Greene's characteristic cool intelligence and dark irony, the novel presents a meditation on complicity and conscience against the backdrop of South American political turmoil.