Brighton Rock (novel) Royal in February 2018 before touring the UK. Brighton Rock (novel) Charles "Fred" Hale comes to Brighton on assignment to distribute cards anonymously for a newspaper competition (a variant of "Lobby Lud"; in this case, the name of the person to be spotted is "Kolley Kibber"). The antihero of the novel, Pinkie Brown, is a teenage sociopath and up-and-coming gangster. Hale had betrayed the former leader of the gang Pinkie now controls, by writing an article in the "Daily Messenger" about a slot machine racket for which the gang was responsible. Ida Arnold, a plump, kind-hearted and decent woman, is
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