A Gun for Sale

by Graham Greene · 1936

A hired killer named Raven tracks the man who paid him in stolen, marked banknotes across a blacked-out English city, dragging a chorus girl witness into a plot that reaches all the way to a European war being engineered for profit.

Books mentioned in A Gun for Sale (2)

• Maud by Alfred Tennyson: “That was Mr Druce Winton, reading a selection from Maud by Lord Tennyson.”
• The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon: “"He said, 'You can go home and read The Decline and Fall...'" / "'Go home and read Gibbon.'"”