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The Confidential Agent
''The Confidential Agent'' (1939) is a thriller novel by British author Graham Greene. Fueled by Benzedrine, Greene wrote it in six weeks.〔(Bergonzi, ''A Study in Greene'', p. 69 )〕 To avoid distraction, he rented a room in Bloomsbury from a landlady who lived in an apartment below him. He used that apartment in the novel (it's where D. hides for a day) and had an affair with the landlady's daughter.〔(West, ''The Quest for Graham Greene'', p. 87 )〕 He wrote the book for money〔(Reid, ''Movie Mystery and Suspense'', p. 81 )〕 and was so displeased with his work that he wanted it published under a pseudonym.〔(West, ''op cit'', p. 87, 91 )〕 But critics took a far different view; ''The New York Times'', for example, called the novel "a magnificent tour-de-force."〔(''Greene: An Annotated Bibliography'', p.22 )〕
== Plot summary ==
"D", a patriot from a country suffering a civil war, is in England to secure a contract with coal magnate Lord Benditch that will greatly assist the faltering loyalist cause. His country is nameless and the details of its history, geography, and current politics remain vague. However, the reader could have little doubt — and Greene himself admitted as much〔(Graham Greene on The Confidential Agent )〕 — that the Spanish Civil War was his main inspiration for the book's depiction of a left-leaning, popular revolutionary republic. Like Spain, the country in ''The Confidential Agent'' is embroiled internally in bitter factional fights while fighting a brutal civil war and a land-owning aristocracy determined to destroy the republic to regain its centuries-old privileged position. Underscoring the Spanish connection, in the novel's final section, a ship travelling from England to the unnamed country must sail westward in the Channel and then cross the Bay of Biscay.
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