num_pages: 320
description: Three men meet on a ship bound for Haiti, a world in the grip of the corrupt “Papa Doc” and the Tontons Macoute, his sinister secret police. Brown the hotelier, Smith the innocent American, and Jones the confidence man—these are the “comedians” of Greene’s title. Hiding behind their actors’ masks, they hesitate on the edge of life. They are men afraid of love, afraid of pain, afraid of fear itself...
language: English
title: The Comedians
titlecomplete: The Comedians
characters: Mr. Smith, Mr. Brown, Major Jones
genres: Classics, British Literature, Novels, Historical Fiction, Literature, 20th Century, Literary Fiction, Audiobook, Fiction, Politics
ratings_count: 8887
places: Haiti
publisher: Penguin Classics