gripping, terrifying, an unputdownable read. discover graham greene's most iconic novel.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.'in this gripping, terrifying, and unputdownable read, discover greene's iconic tale of the razor-wielding pinkie.'brighton rock when i was about thirteen. one of the first lessons i took from it was that a serious novel could be an exciting novel - that the novel of adventure could also be the novel of ideas' ian mcewanwith an introduction by j.m. coetzee