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 Comedians (novel) in its core there lies the steel coil of compulsion." She describes the novel as a "very good story, as we have come to expect." In describing the characters, she notes that Brown goes to Haiti as "the only place on earth where he might be said to have a stake, a love affair, and a piece of property." In his "Ways of Escape", Greene wrote that the book "touched him [Duvalier] on the raw." Duvalier attacked "The Comedians" in the press. His Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a brochure entitled, "Graham Greene "Demasqué"" (Finally Exposed). It described Greene as