The Quiet American (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) - Softcover

Greene, Graham

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140185003 ISBN 13: 9780140185003

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1991

An eager American envoy is mysteriously assigned to Saigon during the French occupation of Indochina

From the Inside Flap:

Into the intrigue and violence of Indo-China comes Pyle, a young idealistic American sent to promote democracy. As his native optimism starts to cause bloodshed, his friend Fowler, a cynical foreign correspondent, cannot stand aside and just watch.
From the Trade Paperback edition.

From the Back Cover:

The relentless struggle of the Vietminh guerrillas for independence and the futility of the French gestures of resistance become inseparably meshed with the personal and moral dilemmas of these two men and the Vietnamese woman they both love.