Pinkie, Cubitt and Ida Arnold are all characters in which Graham Green novel?
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
Pinkie Brown it would feel like to love someone, and his phobia of sex does not prevent him from being as preoccupied with losing his virginity as any other teenage boy. Although clearly named by the other characters, within the narrative Pinkie is never referred to as such; he is only ever called "the Boy". In the beginning of the novel, Brown kills Charles "Fred" Hale, a chronic gambler who helped the mob dispatch his predecessor, Kite. Soon afterward, he kills one of his henchmen, Spicer, when his alcoholism becomes a liability. He dodges the police, but makes an enemy in Ida