BIGHTON OCK : DISCOVE GAHAM GEENE'S MOST ICONIC NOVEL.

With an introduction by J.M. Coetzee ''I read Brighton rock when I was about thirteen. One of the first lessons I took from it was that a serious novel could be an exciting novel - that the novel of adventure could also be the novel of ideas'' Ian McEwan A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Seventeen-year-old Pinkie malign and ruthless has killed a man. Believing he can escape retribution he is unprepared for the courageous life-embracing Ida Arnold. Greene''s gripping thriller exposes a world of loneliness and fear of life lived on the ''dangerous edge of things''.