Novel set in PUERTO RICO and the AMERICAN MIDWEST
The Quiet American
Location(s): Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon)
Genre(s): Fiction
Era(s): 1960s
‘The novel that I love the most is The Quiet American’ Ian McEwan
Into the intrigue and violence of 1950s Indo-China comes CIA agent Alden Pyle, a young idealistic American sent to promote democracy through a mysterious ‘Third Force’. As his naive optimism starts to cause bloodshed, his friend Fowler, a cynical foreign correspondent, finds it hard to stand aside and watch.
But even as he intervenes he wonders why: for the greater good, or something altogether more complicated?
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