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
Graham C. Greene Graham C. Greene Graham Carleton Greene, CBE, (10 July 1936 – 10 October 2016) was a British publisher who was managing director of Jonathan Cape from 1962 to 1990, and the nephew of the novelist Graham Greene. He was chairman of the British Museum. Graham was born in Berlin to Hugh Carleton Greene (who was The Daily Telegraph's correspondent) and Helga Guinness. Most of his childhood was spent in the United Kingdom, with his education taking place at Eton College and University College, Oxford. After a period with the Guinness Mahon family bank in London and New York City, Graham