Raven is an ugly man dedicated to ugly deeds.
During the war he worked for the British secret service.
He converted to Catholicism in 1926, an edifying decision, and reported on religious persecution in Mexico in 1938 in The Lawless Roads, which served as a background for his famous The Power and the Glory, one of several "Catholic" novels (Brighton Rock, The Heart of the Matter, The End of the Affair).
In 1935, he trekked across northern Liberia, his first experience in Africa, recounted in A Journey Without Maps (1936).
He began to attract notice as a novelist with his fourth book, Orient Express, in 1932.
Educated at Berkhamsted School and Balliol College, Oxford, he started his career as a sub-editor of The Times of London.
About the Author: Graham Greene (1904-1991), whose long life nearly spanned the length of the twentieth century, was one of its greatest novelists.
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In doing so, he sets the stage for Greene\'s next novel, Brighton Rock.
As he tracks down the agent who has been double-crossing him and attempts to elude the police, he becomes both hunter and hunted: an unwitting weapon of a strange kind of social justice.
The money he receives in payment for the murder is made up of stolen notes and when the first of these is traced, Raven becomes a man on the run.
His cold-blooded killing of a European Minister of War is an act of violence with chilling repercussions, not just for Raven himself but for the nation as a whole.
Raven is an ugly man dedicated to ugly deeds
