Nutty, salty and tinged with melancholy, it sits between two styles just as Scobie does between two loves. Dry and brooding, it suits the book's sultry moral twilight.
Faded and pale-brick in color, it tastes of old paper, dried fruit and regret. A long-aged wine for a long-suffering man.
A decent colonial police officer in wartime West Africa is undone by pity, adultery and a conscience he cannot quiet. Greene's humid, moral tragedy is painfully human.
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