Pinkie, a scrawny but sociopathically cold seventeen-year-old, is the (ironically) Bonapartean leader of the gang, and he doesn’t flinch as his crew murder Hale. But Ida Arnold cannot save him, and soon the gang catch up with Hale. Latching on to a buxom, good-time girl down from London, Hale hopes to escape the gang’s clutches. Later known by his real name, Hale, he has fallen in with the wrong crowd, and a quiet day by the sea soon turns into a race against death as a local gang pursue him. Kolley Kibber, or Fred, is a newspaper man visiting Brighton for work.
Brighton Rock (1938) is one of Graham Greene’s most famous works, and one of his ‘Catholic novels’.
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