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A Gun for Sale is a 1936 novel by Graham Greene about a criminal called Raven, a man dedicated to ugly deeds. When he is paid, with stolen notes, for killing the Minister of War, he becomes a man on the run.
- Graham Greene
- 1936
Titolo originale: A Gun for Sale. A cura di Domenico Scarpa. Nota di Giancarlo De Cataldo. Maestria letteraria, fluidità e grande suspense, in un romanzo che corre rapido verso il punto di massima tensione, mentre il mondo precipita verso il disastro bellico.
A Gun for Sale is a man on the run story from Graham Greene, set during wartime. Raven, an assassin with a harelip carries out the murder of a diplomat which triggers a war like situation. But when the men who ordered the killing cheat him on the agreed money, Raven decides to take revenge.
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6 set 2013 · A gun for sale. by. Greene, Graham, 1904-1991. Publication date. 1993. Topics. Large type books, Murder for hire. Publisher. Hampton, N.H. : Curley Large Print.
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About A Gun for Sale. Raven is an ugly man dedicated to ugly deeds. 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.
A true rarity in the dust-jacket: first British edition, first issue. All of Greene's early books are scarce in the dust-jacket, but A Gun for Sale is one of the rarest, with only one in the jacket recorded at auction (Anthony Hobson’s copy, sold Sotheby’s 28 June 1996, lot 104 £7,130).
