The Comedians
Categories: Literature & Fiction
The Comedians (1966) is a novel by Graham Greene set in Haiti under the dictatorship of François "Papa Doc" Duvalier. Brown, the owner of a nearly empty hotel in Port-au-Prince, returns to the island by ship with two fellow passengers: Smith, an idealistic American, and Jones, a smooth-talking adventurer with a vague military past. Back in a country ruled by fear and the secret police, Brown resumes an affair with an ambassador's wife as the three men become entangled in its politics.
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- Anthony Bourdain: “The Comedians is a great book btw”