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Home from the colonies (South Africa), Castle is now a minor functionary in British Intelligence, a middle-aged man devoted to his black wife Sarah and her young son. Castle lives in "angst": a double agent, he leaks information to the Communists. Castle's superiors suspect Davis, Castle's woebegone office mate hungering for romance; but the reader knows early that Castle is the traitor. The narrative is built on Greene's familiar structure: the respected man, secretly living outside society's laws, finally caught by the corrupted law of that society. The reader's sympathies are with the outlaws; a basically decent human being who does the wrong thing for the right reasons
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The human factor, Graham Greene
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- Released
- 1978
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- Title
- The human factor
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Graham Greene
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Released
- 1978
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0140049568
- ISBN13
- 9780140049565
- Series
- Collection
- Fiction (Penguin Books)
- Tags
- Fiction, Mystery & Thriller, Historical Fiction, Thriller, Classics, Love, British Literature, England, English Literature, Espionage, Spy Novels, Conspiracy, South Africa, Secret Services, Cold War, Agents, Secret Agents, Double Agents
- First published
- 1978
- Original title
- The Human Factor
- Rating
- 3.95 out of 5
- Description
- Home from the colonies (South Africa), Castle is now a minor functionary in British Intelligence, a middle-aged man devoted to his black wife Sarah and her young son. Castle lives in "angst": a double agent, he leaks information to the Communists. Castle's superiors suspect Davis, Castle's woebegone office mate hungering for romance; but the reader knows early that Castle is the traitor. The narrative is built on Greene's familiar structure: the respected man, secretly living outside society's laws, finally caught by the corrupted law of that society. The reader's sympathies are with the outlaws; a basically decent human being who does the wrong thing for the right reasons