{"product_id":"2026200016221-secondhand-the-power-and-the-glory","title":"The Power And The Glory","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Previous owner\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the sweltering, God-forsaken state of Tabasco, Mexico, a hunted man stumbles through a landscape stripped of hope — Graham Greene's The Power and the Glory is a masterwork of moral suspense that burns with the ferocity of a faith tested to its absolute limits. The nameless whisky priest, the last remaining Catholic clergyman in a fiercely anti-clerical regime, is a broken, dissolute figure — a man who has fathered an illegitimate child and drinks to silence his own conscience — yet he refuses to abandon his flock, even as a fanatical police lieutenant closes in on him with ruthless determination. The central conflict is a chase story, but Greene transforms it into something far richer: a profound meditation on guilt, grace, and the paradox of a sinner who may yet be a saint.\n\nGreene's prose is taut and cinematic, rendered in spare, morally weighted sentences that offer no easy comfort to the reader. The Power and the Glory, first published in 1940, cemented his reputation as one of the twentieth century's preeminent Catholic novelists, and the novel's argument — that God's grace operates precisely through human weakness and failure — remains as provocative today as it was upon its release. It is a book that chronicles a manhunt across a physical and spiritual wasteland, daring the reader to decide, in the very last pages, whether mercy or damnation has prevailed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49342769660123,"sku":"2026200016221-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/c9ec199f-cf09-4400-baef-385111686cb3.png?v=1790048900","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200016221-secondhand-the-power-and-the-glory","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}