# The Honorary Consul

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- Book: [The Honorary Consul](https://www.bookquiver.com/graham-green/the-honorary-consul) ([The Honorary Consul.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/graham-green/the-honorary-consul.md))
- Authors: [Graham Green](https://www.bookquiver.com/graham-green)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4310-555-8
- Pages: 304
- Published: 2008-09-30
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

In a provincial Argentinean town, Charley Fortnum, a British consul with dubious authority and a weakness for drink, is kidnapped by Paraguayan revolutionaries who have mistaken him for the American ambassador....