Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ

I enjoyed this mystery kinda spy thriller set in London during the blitz. Arthur Rowe has a sad past at the beginning of the novel and becomes an accidental hero as the novel plays out. There’s nostalgia for childhood, and a prewar England. The feeling of oppression from the nightly bomb raids is captured in great imagery by Greene. The plot itself is a bit confusing as Rowe doesn’t know what’s happening and it takes a while for it to be resolved yet the writing is so good that I kept reading easily. In some ways the story is a bit simplistic or maybe slapstick (view spoiler)[ would spies really hide microfilm in a cake at a fete? (hide spoiler)] but it’s entertaining with dark undertones.