Brighton rock

By Graham Greene

Subjects: Fiction / General, Social conditions, English Psychological fiction, Gangs, Psychopaths, Fiction, Greene, graham, 1904-1991, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, thrillers, suspense, Gangsters, Organized crime, Fiction, suspense, Teenage boys, English fiction, history and criticism, 20th century, England, fiction, Detective and mystery stories

Description: 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.