The quiet american

discover graham green’s prescient political masterpiece‘the novel that i love the most is the quiet american’ ian mcewaninto 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?with an introduction by zadie smith**one of the bbc’s 100 novels that shaped our world**