``Hale knew, before he had been in Brighton three hours, that they meant to murder him...`` Graham Greene\'s chilling expose of violence and gang warfare in the pre-war underworld is a classic of its kind.
Responsible for the razor slashes that killed mob boss Kite and also for the death of Hale, a reporter who threatened the livelihood of the mob, Pink.
Pinkie, a teenage gangster on the rise, is devoid of compassion or human feeling, despising weakness of both the spirit and the flesh. ``Hale knew, before he had been in Brighton three hours, that they meant to murder him...`` Graham Greene\'s chilling expose of violence and gang warfare in the pre-war underworld is a classic of its kind