Graham Greene preferred the novel

(1973) “to all the others” (

228) as it best accomplished his creative goals.

, with highly developed characters and nuanced presentations of philosophical, religious, and artistic topics, also reconsiders the issues of faith and tyranny that had occupied Greene since

(1940). Where

focuses on the bases of morality, salvation, and sin by recounting the hunt by the Mexican paramilitary group, the Red Shirts, for an unnamed, worldly “whiskey priest”,

uses the political turmoil still evident in South America as background for a cynical doctor, a vainglorious writer, and a drunken minor official to apprehend the complicated issues of love and humanitarianism.

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