TY  - BOOK
AU  - Greene,Graham
TI  - The quiet American
T2  - Penguin twentieth-century classics
SN  - 0140017925
U1  - 823.912 
PY  - 1973///
CY  - Middlesex, England
PB  - Penguin Books
KW  - Indochinese War, 1946-1954
KW  - Journalists
KW  - Fiction
KW  - War correspondents
KW  - Indochina
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1945-
KW  - Vietnam
KW  - 1945-1975
N1  - First published by Heinemann 1955
N2  - "The Quiet American is a terrifying portrait of innocence at large.  While the French army in Indo-China is grappling with the Vietminh, back at Saigon a young and high-minded American begins to channel economic aid to a 'Third Force'.  The narrator, a seasoned foreign correspondent, is forced to observe: 'I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused'.  As young Pyle's policies blunder on into bloodshed, the older man finds it impossible to stand aside as an observer. But his motives for intervening are suspect, both to the police and to himself: for Pyle has robbed him of his Annamite mistress." - Back cover
ER  -