A Gun for Sale A Gun for Sale A Gun For Sale is a 1936 novel by Graham Greene about a criminal called Raven, a man dedicated to ugly deeds. When he is paid, with stolen notes, for killing the Minister of War, he becomes a man on the run. Tracking down the agent who double-crossed him, and eluding the police simultaneously, he becomes both the hunter and the hunted. The novel was published and filmed in the United States under the title "This Gun For Hire". The novel prefigures Greene's later, more famous, work, "Brighton Rock", wherein Pinkie Brown's killing of Hale sets
The Words That Maketh Murder version of the video was released on 15 March 2011. Although Harvey had previously performed a number of songs from the album in 2009, "The Words That Maketh Murder" was debuted live at La Maroquinerie in Paris, France on 14 February 2011, her first live performance to promote "Let England Shake". This performance was also broadcast live as a webcast through a number of online sites, including the concert's promoter Dezzer Offline. The performance was shortly followed by an in-studio radio session for "Geoff Lloyd's Hometime Show" on Absolute Radio on 17 February, and later for a BBC Radio 1