Brighton Rock

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Brighton Rock (2010, Penguin Random House)

304 pages

English language

Published Nov. 21, 2010 by Penguin Random House.

ISBN:
978-1-4070-8683-5
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An atmospheric crime thriller featuring a teenage sociopath intent on becoming the underworld boss of Brighton. Having murdered a man who had betrayed his gang the young gangster Pinky Brown tries to covers his tracks but circumstances never seem to go his way and he becomes ever more desperate, even going so far as to marry a young girl who witnessed the shooting, it being the law at that time that a man’s wife could not be forced to testify against him.

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Subjects

  • Greene, graham, 1904-1991
  • English fiction, history and criticism, 20th century