Graham Greene · 1955 · thriller

Graham Greene's 1955 novel. In early-1950s Saigon, as French colonial rule crumbles, the weary British journalist Fowler watches the idealistic young American Pyle blunder into the war with lethal good intentions. From the opium haze of the city to the bombed causeways of the northern front at Phat Diem, love for a Vietnamese woman and the politics of a coming American war entangle fatally.

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   Saigon

   The colonial capital where the jaded Fowler and the earnest CIA man Pyle circle each other and the woman Phuong, as bombings and intrigue signal the end of French rule.

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   Phat Diem

   The northern cathedral town on the war's front line, where Fowler witnesses the carnage of the conflict and Pyle turns up, incongruous, in the middle of the fighting.