Somewhere in shadowy post-war Vienna, where everyone has something to sell on the black market, lurks "the third man," who witnessed the murder of Harry Lime. The police don't care to investigate, but novelist Holly Martins is haunted by the death of his friend. He searches for the killer in this adaptation of the Graham Greene novel.

Features autobiographical and critical material on the English writer as well as a representative selection of his fiction.

I have read the book twice in my life and find it a fascinating character study of the fallible priest who still feels called to minister the Eucharist to the poor who need him. The setting in Mexico is powerful as the priest ministers illegally in the season of Mexico's history where he could be arrested and killed at any time. Greene's character study is methodical and intense, not a light read. Still the "power and the glory" of the book is obvious...

In The third man, Rollo Martins is in corrupt postwar Vienna, seeking "to discover the almost unbearable truth about his old friend Harry Lime." In Loser takes all, "Its narrator, Bertram is a quiet assistant accountant about to be married for the second time, but when a director of his firm whimsically offers both wedding and honeymoon in Monte Carlo, and Bertram (always good with numbers) goes to the casino with a system that really works, he suddenly...