GREENE, GRAHAM — The Tenth Man

New York, Simon & Schuster. 1985, 1st US Edition. (ISBN: 067150794X) Hardcover. Book, In a Gestapo prison in Occupied France one in every ten men is to be shot. The prisoners draw lots among themselves - and for rich lawyer Louis Chavel it seems that his whole life has been leading up to an agonising and crucial failure of nerve. Hysterical with panic, fear, and a sense of injustice, he offers to barter everything he owns for someone to take his place. Graham Greene wrote The Tenth Man in 1944, when he was under a two-year contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and the manuscript lay forgotten in MGM's archives until 1983. It is now published for the first time with an introduction by the author. 157p.Crisp copy, fine except for small remainder mark. Near Fine/Fine.