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OCLC. 59545065. 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. Tracking down the agent who double-crossed him, and eluding the police simultaneously, he becomes both the ...
- 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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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. The money he receives in payment for the murder is made up of stolen notes and when the first of these is traced, ...
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12 apr 2021 · First published in 1936, A Gun for Sale by Graham Greene is an oppressively dark crime novel about a British assassin who becomes a wanted man in England after he commits his deed on European soil. In much the same way as the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand….
A detective and a chorus girl stalk the shadows of a murderer in this thriller from “a pioneer of the modern mood we now think of as noir” (LA Weekly). Born out of a brutal childhood, Raven is an assassin for hire whose latest hit—a government minister—is one calculated to ignite a war.
2 ott 2010 · A Gun for Sale. Graham Greene. Random House, Oct 2, 2010 - Fiction - 208 pages. Raven is a ruthless assassin, a hired killer, whose cold-blooded murder of the Minister for War will have...
