Michael Shelden's stunning biography, a bestseller in England, reveals Graham Greene's mysterious double life and identity: the respected novelist who was also a spy, and whose life was based on deception. The author of The Power and the Glory, The Third Man, and other distinguished literary works is portrayed in this first complete biography as a man devoted not only to creating works of fiction but also to creating fiction about himself. Greene was highly regarded as a Catholic novelist, yet Michael Shelden shows that his faith was one of many masks Greene donned as a cover for a life devoted to misinformation, intrigue, and mystery. And Greene had much to hide: daring adventures as a spy, literary pranks, and a strange, complex sex life. Drawing on much previously unseen matrerial, including Greene's correspondence with his mistresses and documents from his MI6/Secret Service dossier, and interviews with those who knew him, Shelden uncovers the real Graham Greene and provides a radical reinterpretation of the man and his major works. It is an account as dramatic as any of Greene's own works of fiction. Michael Shelden reveals the man behind the facade, and the enemy within. Print run reads: 2 4 6 8 9 7 5 3, First U.S. Edition.

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