His job is to run a newspaper treasure hunt and promotional scheme. Fred is employed by a newspaper, The Messenger, in London. He elicits empathy despite the fact that he may have his own chequered past. Fred Hale’s murder, however, frames the story - as does his vulnerability in the last hours of life. It’s unusual for a novel to begin from the point of view of a character who will die in the first chapter. Sun-drenched Brighton, with throngs of visitors from London enjoying a long weekend by the sea, is the seemingly innocuous backdrop for a story about mob life, murders and a seventeen year-old sociopath called Pinkie. On a Whitsun holiday weekend, she has a fling with a frightened stranger on the cusp of death. That’s what happens to Ida Arnold in Graham Greene’s 1938 novel Brighton Rock. Graham Greene, Brighton Rock, Penguin Twentieth Century Classics, 1995, 247 pgs.Ī chance encounter can change the course of a life.
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