Orient Express

Orient Express

Greeneâ€™s â€œsharply, often incisively etchedâ€ novel of the interlocked fates of unwary strangers on a train from Belgium to Constantinople (The New York Times).
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The Orient Express has embarked from Ostend for a three-day journey to Cologne, Vienna, and Constantinople. The passenger list includes a Jewish trader from London with business interests in Turkeyâ€”and a score to settle; a vulnerable chorus girl on her last legs; a boozy and spiteful journalist whoâ€™s found an unrequited love in her paid companion, and her latest scoop in second classâ€”a Serbian dissident in disguise on his way to lead a revolution; and a murderer on the run looking for a getaway. As the train hurtles across Europe, the fates of everyone on board will collide long before the Orient Express rushes headlong to its final destination.
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Originally published in the UK as Stamboul Train in 1932, Graham Greeneâ€™s â€œnovel has movement, variety, interest; taken on the surface, it is an interesting and entertaining story of adventure, penetrated through and through with the consciousness of the on-rushing train, with that curious sense of the temporary suspension of oneâ€™s ordinary existence which comes to many on ship or trainâ€ (The New York Times).
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Country USA
Manufacturer Open Road Media
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2018-05-15
Format Kindle eBook

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