The Quiet American

The Quiet American

A â€œmasterful .Â .Â . brilliantly constructed novelâ€ of love and chaos in 1950s Vietnam (Zadie Smith, The Guardian).
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Itâ€™s 1955 and British journalist Thomas Fowler has been in Vietnam for two years covering the insurgency against French colonial rule. But itâ€™s not just a political tangle thatâ€™s kept him tethered to the country. Thereâ€™s also his lover, Phuong, a young Vietnamese woman who clings to Fowler for protection. Then comes Alden Pyle, an idealistic American working in service of the CIA. Devotedly, disastrously patriotic, he believes neither communism nor colonialism is whatâ€™s best for Southeast Asia, but rather a â€œThird Forceâ€: American democracy by any means necessary. His ideas of conquest include Phuong, to whom he promises a sweet life in the states. But as Pyleâ€™s blind moral conviction wreaks havoc upon innocent lives, itâ€™s ultimately his romantic compulsions that will play a role in his own undoing.
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Although criticized upon publication as anti-American, Graham Greeneâ€™s â€œcomplex but compelling story of intrigue and counter-intrigueâ€ would, in a few short years, prove prescient in its own condemnation of American interventionism (The New York Times).
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Country USA
Manufacturer Open Road Media
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2018-03-13
Format Kindle eBook

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