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 Light of Day (Graham Swift novel) Bob's affair with Kristina, a Croatian refugee, had come to an end. The novel divided opinion: The Light of Day (Graham Swift novel) The Light of Day is a 2003 novel by English author Graham Swift, published seven years after his previous novel, the Booker Prize winner "Last Orders". The book is set in 1997 in Wimbledon, the narrator George preparing to visit the grave of Bob Nash in Putney Vale Cemetery on the two year anniversary of his death, and then to visit Sarah who was convicted of his murder and with whom George has fallen in love. George