# The Quiet American

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- Book: [The Quiet American](https://www.bookquiver.com/graham-green/the-quiet-american) ([The Quiet American.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/graham-green/the-quiet-american.md))
- Authors: [Graham Green](https://www.bookquiver.com/graham-green)
- Publisher: vintage_digital
- Medium: audio
- Length: 5 h 56 min
- Narrated by: Simon Cadell
- ISBN: 978-15-2996-324-3
- Published: 2025-04-24
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Audiobook · 5 h 56 min

## Description

Brought to you by Penguin. As Pyle's naive optimism starts to cause bloodshed, his friend Fowler, a cynical foreign correspondent, finds it hard to stand aside and watch. But even as Fowler intervenes he wonders why: for the greater good, or something altogether more complicated? 'The novel that I love the most is The Quiet American ' Ian McEwan, Sunday Times bestselling author of Lessons Into the intrigue and violence of 1950s Saigon comes CIA agent Alden Pyle, a young idealistic American sent to promote democracy through a mysterious 'Third Force'. **One of the BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World** © Graham Greene 1955, 1973 (P) Penguin Audio 2025