Soon after, she persuades Henry to abandon Southwood, to travel to Brighton, Paris, Istanbul, Paraguay, and a shiftless, twilight society of hippies, war criminals, CIA men that will help Henry come alive after a dull suburban life. VINTAGE VOYAGES: A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mind

Discover Graham Green’s prescient political masterpiece‘The novel that I love the most is The Quiet American’ Ian McEwanInto the intrigue and violence of 1950s Indo-China comes CIA agent Alden Pyle, a young idealistic American sent to promote democracy through a mysterious 'Third Force'.

Wormold is a vacuum cleaner salesman in a city of powercuts. His adolescent daughter spends his money with a skill that amazes him so when a mysterious Englishman offers him an extra income he`s tempted. In return all he has to do is file a few reports. But when his fake reports start coming true things suddenly get more complicated.