num_pages: 292
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: Audiobook, 20th Century, Politics, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Classics, British Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 8886
places: Haiti
publisher: Vintage Classics