Description
A boarding-school boy is taken from his routine life and brought to a cramped London flat, where a poor woman, Liza, becomes his unexpected anchor and a mysterious benefactor known only as “the Captain” appears in fits and starts. As the boy grows older, the Captain’s generosity and charm give way to unsettling patterns—odd errands, shifting loyalties, and a sense that something is being arranged around him rather than for him. Against a bleak, morally ambiguous backdrop, the novel unfolds as a high-stakes game of surveillance and manipulation, exploring how identity, guilt, and survival can be shaped by forces that never fully reveal themselves. In Graham Greene’s unmistakably cool, darkly observant style, the story blends emotional discovery with the farcical machinery of espionage, asking what it means to be used—and what it costs to understand the truth.
Available Editions
paperback
G.K. Hall
Published Jan 1, 1989
245 pages
ISBN: 9780816149322
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Details
First Published
1988
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Captain and the Enemy by Graham Greene.