Title: A Gun for Sale
Description: 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, Raven becomes a man on the run. As he tracks down the agent who has been double-crossing him and attempts to elude the police, he becomes both hunter and hunted: an unwitting weapon of a strange kind of social justice. In doing so, he sets the stage for Greene’s next novel, Brighton Rock.
Subjects: Fiction, Fiction in English, Murder for hire, Large type books, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), England, fiction, Fiction, thrillers, suspense, Fiction, general, Assassins, Organized crime, Suspense fiction
Places: Nottingham (England), Great Britain
Time periods: 1930's