Titre : | The Human factor |
Auteurs : | Graham (Henry) Greene, Auteur |
Type de document : | texte imprimé |
Editeur : | London : Vintage books, 1978 |
ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 978-0-09-928852-7 |
Format : | 260 pages / Illustré / 19x12 cm |
Langues: | Anglais |
Langues originales: | Anglais |
Résumé : |
The Human Factor by Graham Greene is a novel about Maurice Castle. He is 62 years and does office work for a British intelligence agency. He is married to Sarah, who comes from Africa. They have a son called Sam. His responsibilities at work entail liaising with British agents in South Africa. He works together with Arthur Davis in the same office. Previously, Castle had been posted in South Africa, where he was a field agent. When Castle goes out for lunch on a normal working day, he bumps into Colonel Daintry, who is now in charge of security. He requests to check Castle’s bag to ensure that he is not carrying top secret documents outside the building.
Maurice Castle, sixty-two years old, works a desk job in a two-man subsection of British Intelligence. Castle’s duties and those of his younger office mate Arthur Davis involve receiving and sending information to and from South Africa, where Castle previously worked as a field agent. One day on his way to lunch, Castle meets the new head of security, Colonel Daintry. Though polite, Daintry asks Castle to open his briefcase and show that he is not removing any classified papers. Later, Castle rides the train to his home in Berkhamsted, where he senses something amiss. His wife Sarah tells him that their young son Sam has measles. Castle’s anxiety subsides somewhat. What he values most in life is Sarah, a black woman he met in South Africa, and her son Sam. That weekend, Daintry and others from security meet at the country house of Sir John Hargreaves, Daintry’s superior, for a pheasant shoot and a discussion of the security leak that was traced to Castle’s office. Over whiskey and cigars, Hargreaves decides that once the culprit is identified he will have to be eliminated to spare British Intelligence the embarrassment of a public treason trial. To facilitate that end, he invites Doctor Percival to join them in case they should need suggestions for an undetectable poison. |
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