The Tenth Man
- Author Graham Greene
- Narrator George Blagden
- Publisher Random House
- Run Time 3 hours and 47 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Classic fiction, Historical fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction, Second World War fiction.
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What to expect
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In a prison in Occupied France during the Second World War, the order is given that every tenth inmate is to be executed. Louis Chavel, a rich lawyer, draws the short straw and barters everything he owns to exchange places with another man and survive. Destitute but free, Chavel later returns to the house that he sold for his life, where he must face the consequences of his cowardice and seek redemption.
©Graham Greene 1985 (P) Penguin Audio 2020
Critics Review
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Greene was a past master of the psychological thriller and this was no exception
Observer -
A masterpiece – tapped out in the lean, sharp prose that film work taught Greene to perfect
Sunday Times -
All of the Greene hallmarks are there: pace, ingenuity, a sense of profundities suggested but never insisted upon
Sunday Telegraph -
Typically full of psychological obsession and tricks of perspective, this short story plays games with the concepts of identity and freedom. Threaded through with paranoiac attempts to be sure of time, life, and death, the story ends with impenetrable paradox; with a tragedy and a travesty, a revenge and a redressal, truth and the ultimate lie
The Times
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