# The Confidential Agent

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- Book: [The Confidential Agent](https://www.bookquiver.com/graham-green/the-confidential-agent) ([The Confidential Agent.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/graham-green/the-confidential-agent.md))
- Authors: [Graham Green](https://www.bookquiver.com/graham-green)
- Publisher: vintage_classics
- ISBN: 978-00-9928-619-6
- Pages: 272
- Published: 2019-08-01
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY IAN RANKIN ‘In a class by himself... the ultimate chronicler of twentieth-century man’s consciousness and anxiety’ William Golding In a small continental country civil war is raging. Once a lecturer in medieval French, now a government agent, D is a scarred stranger in England, sent on a mission to buy coal at any price. Initially, this seems to be a matter of straightforward negotiation, but soon, implicated in murder, accused of possessing false documents and theft, held responsible for the death of a young woman, D becomes a hunted man, tormented by allegiances, doubts and love.