The mourner
Richard Stark
The fourth Parker novel has the main character coming up against the KGB while on the trail of a small statue stolen from a fifteenth-century French tomb.
Read Time: ~2 hr
The Third Man
by Graham Greene (1988)
About this book
Initially written as a screenplay Greene later transferred the film treatment to novel form as a novella, published together with The Fallen Idol. Set in post-war Vienna The Third Man concerns the mysterious Harry Lime, a black market trader thought by the authorities to be dead.
Setting / LocationGlobal
Story EraModern Era
Protagonist / CoreThe Third Man Lead Character
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