![]() To avoid the possibility of his crimes getting out he has to keep a young lady, Rose, quiet. ![]() He’s also a murdering lunatic and a scared, confused and angry man. He frequently expresses disgust at the idea of sex. Pinkie is in many ways an innocent, he doesn’t drink and he doesn’t know about women. ![]() The thriller has one hell of an opening line, “Hale knew, before he had been in Brighton for three hours, that they meant to murder him.”īut the story isn’t about Hale, not really, it’s about the very young Pinkie. This being Brighton, no one has a gun – our bad guys go around armed with razors. Mostly, it would seem, they are trying to make money out of gambling rackets. The seaside town is alays ready for the tourists and has plenty to entertain them, but there’s also a gritty underworld of mobsters. Brighton Rock, meanwhile, had been sitting ignored since I picked it up on a whim in the Waterstones in Aviemore, oh, four years ago? It’s still been waiting less time than many.īrighton Rock takes place, unsurprisingly, in Brighton. When I went to see Travels with my Aunt at the Citz last year, that was the first experience of Greene’s fiction that I’d had. Even though we have at least two books of his on the shelf. ![]() Graham Greene is one of those famous writers who’s name I nknew but who I’d never read. ![]()
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