Title: A Disappointment.
Review: I am a fan of Graham Greene; he is one of the few writers I have ever read who deals with issues of hope and dispair in real and honest terms. After reading works such as The Heart of the Matter and The Human Factor, I expected more of Greene than a shallow and naive allegory about America's involvement in Viet Nam. Greene is far more adept at revealing the frailties of the human heart than he is at reducing the complexities of world politics into individual characters. In The Quiet American, Greene tries to do both but succeeds at neither. Skip it.
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