This is considered by many as the most accomplished work of Graham Greene. On a West African coastal town during World War II, a British assistant police commisioner, Henry Scobie, grappled to fight the everyday temptation of corruption in the island. Like in any Greene's work, it is the impecable use of the language that is so delightful. It is so unfortunate that, after many times being shortlisted in the Nobel Prize, as claimed by his biographers, he did not win the award. What a shame indeed!