A Gun for Sale
Categories: Literature & Fiction
A Gun for Sale is a 1936 novel by Graham Greene, published in the US as This Gun for Hire and adapted into a 1942 film with Alan Ladd. Greene called it one of his entertainments. Raven, a hired killer with a harelip, assassinates a European minister and is paid with stolen banknotes. Betrayed by his employers and hunted by the police, he heads to the town of Nottwich to take revenge, taking a chorus girl hostage, as Europe edges closer toward war.
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