1948The Heart of the Matter
Graham Greene
A West African coastal colony in the middle of the Second World War, lightly fictionalised but unmistakably wartime Freetown, where Greene himself served in intelligence. A deputy police commissioner moves between the harbour and its anchored convoys, the waterfront wharf and the police station, the hillside bungalows above the town and the Catholic church, until private failure and Catholic conscience close in. The map runs across the Freetown peninsula, with one excursion inland to the border district.
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