# The Heart of the Matter

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- Book: [The Heart of the Matter](https://www.bookquiver.com/graham-greene/the-heart-of-the-matter) ([The Heart of the Matter.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/graham-greene/the-heart-of-the-matter.md))
- Authors: [Graham Green](https://www.bookquiver.com/graham-greene)
- Publisher: vintage_classics
- ISBN: 978-00-9947-842-3
- Pages: 288
- Published: 2019-12-05
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JAMES WOOD Scobie, a police officer serving in a war-time West African state, is distrusted, being scrupulously honest and immune to bribery. But then he falls in love, and in doing so he is forced to betray everything he believes in, with drastic and tragic consequences.