The Quiet American
Pocketbok. Bantam . First uppl. 1957. 183 sidor.
Mycket gott skick.
Alden Pyle, fresh out of Harvard, came to French Indo-China in the middle of the war on a secret mission for the State Department.
Sublimely innocent of everything except what he'd read in books, Pyle fell, headlong and unaware, into a web of deadly intrigue..
Told with savage wit and irony here is Graham
Greene's acid-etched
portrait of the new American image abroad, terribly self-righteous, terribly innocent, with an infinite and ignorant capacity for making mischief.
Many Americans will not agree with this book-but all of us ought to read it because it is what a very large part of the world really thinks of us.