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During a demonstration in Hyde Park, Communist bus driver Jim Drover acts on instinct to protect his wife by stabbing to death the policeman set to strike her down. Sentenced to hang-whether as a martyr, tool, or murderer-Drover accepts his lot, unaware that the ramifications for the crime, and the battle for his reprieve, are inflaming political unrest in an increasingly divided city. But Drover's single, impulsive act is also upending the lives of the people he loves and trusts. Caught in a quicksand of desperation, sexual betrayal, and guilt, they will not only play a part in Drover's fate, but they'll become agents-both unwitting and calculated-of their own fates as well.
Turning the traditional narrative of the police procedural, domestic drama, and political thriller on its head, It's a Battlefield was described by Graham Greene himself as "a panoramic novel of London," one without heroes and villains, only "the injustice of man's justice."
Turning the traditional narrative of the police procedural, domestic drama, and political thriller on its head, It's a Battlefield was described by Graham Greene himself as "a panoramic novel of London," one without heroes and villains, only "the injustice of man's justice."
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"In a class by himself... The ultimate chronicler of twentieth-century man's consciousness and anxiety."
William Golding
"[Greene] writes in a cinematographic style that shoots a keen, swift-moving camera eye from one point to another round the circle of his drama.... This is a distinctive story, engrossing, alive and decidedly well worth reading."
The New York Times
"The most ingenious, inventive and exciting of our novelists, rich in exactly etched and moving portraits of real human beings... A master of storytelling."
V. S. Pritchett, The Times (London)