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This new novel, his tenth, bears no trace of slackening or diminution, it is not an old hand’s brewing up-though the hand admittedly is very cunning-the mixture as before it is instead a work of strength and freshness, and in its core there lies the steel coil of compulsion. Graham Greene after finishing A Burnt-Out Case, his ninth “As one grows older the writing of a novel does not become more easy, and it seemed to me when I wrote the last words that I had reached an age when another full-length novel was probably beyond my powers.”