A review by jakewritesbooks
The Honorary Consul by Graham Greene, Nicholas Shakespeare

4.0

(4.5) I've given Graham Greene two tries, one I somewhat appreciated (The Power and the Glory), one I did not (The Quiet American). This was the best of the three by far. Listed as a "thriller", it's more accurately what CrimeReads.com dubbed "diplomatic noir." The lead character is a cynic like many of Greene's characters but unlike previous works, he's not serving in a purely symbolic role so there's a depth here that give the circumstances true stakes, as well as make Greene's typical rumination on religion and morality work.