A gun for sale
Subtitle: an entertainment
By: Graham Greene ; introduction by Samuel Hynes.
Series: Penguin classics
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
Subjects: Murder for hire -- Fiction; Nottingham (England) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "Raven is an ugly man dedicated to ugly deeds. His cold-blooded killing of the 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. When the first of these is traced, Raven becomes a man on the run. As he tracks down the agent who has been double-crossing him while he attempts to elude the police, Raven becomes both hunter and hunted: an unwitting weapon of a strange kind of social justice."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. xv-xviii).
Originally published as: This gun for hire. Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1936.