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Brighton Rock

Pages
374
Published
1970
Language
English

Synopsis

In Brighton, a teenage sociopath named Pinky Brown is determined to rule the criminal underworld. After a murder, he desperately tries to cover his tracks, but fate seems to conspire against him. He resorts to marrying a witness to prevent her testimony, but his ambition leads him down a path of increasing desperation and violence.

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About the author

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Graham Greene

Henry Graham Greene (2 October 1904 – 3 April 1991) was an English novelist, short-story writer, playwright and journalist, widely regarded as one of the major British writers of the twentieth century. Born in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, and educated at Balliol College, Oxford, he converted to Roman Catholicism in 1926 and worked as a copy editor on The Times before becoming film critic and literary editor of The Spectator. During the Second World War he served with the Foreign Office in Freetow...

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Pinky BrownProtagonist
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