Brighton rock
by Graham Greene
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"A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Seventeen-year-old Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can escape retribution, he is unprepared for the courageous, life-embracing Ida Arnold. Greene's gripping thriller exposes a world of loneliness and fear, of life lived on the 'dangerous edge of things'."--Back cover.
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Fiction, Gangsters, Organized crime, Psychopaths, Teenage boys, Fiction / General, Gangs, Fiction, suspense, England, fiction, Greene, graham, 1904-1991, English fiction, history and criticism, 20th century, Social conditions, English Psychological fiction, Detective and mystery stories, Fiction, thrillers, suspense, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)Places
Brighton, Brighton (England), EnglandTimes
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Brighton Rock
July 15, 1987, Heinemann Educational Secondary Division
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Originally published: London: Heinemann, 1938.
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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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