An early-ish effort from my favorite author. He’d written plenty of adventures prior to this, but here is one of his earliest efforts to write the sort of book that defined him. A bit more exposition than later Greene novels require to introduce characters, relationships, and most importantly, moods. And then the final, inevitable tragedy of Greene’s best work is here, but in a not-yet-perfected form. A bit more heavy-handed and less inescapable and believable than he his later stuff. But still a grand, engaging work.