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Brought to you by Penguin.

Gripping, terrifying, an unputdownable read. Discover Graham Greene's most iconic novel.

A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Seventeen-year-old Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can escape retribution, he is unprepared for the courageous, life-embracing Ida Arnold. Greene's gripping thriller exposes a world of loneliness and fear, of life lived on the 'dangerous edge of things.'

In this gripping, terrifying, and unputdownable read, discover Greene's iconic tale of the razor-wielding Pinkie.

'Brighton Rock when I was about thirteen. One of the first lessons I took from it was that a serious novel could be an exciting novel - that the novel of adventure could also be the novel of ideas' Ian McEwan

© Graham Greene 1938 (P) Penguin Audio 2025

 Classics Crime Fiction Crime Thrillers Genre Fiction Historical Literary Fiction Thriller & Suspense Exciting
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Seen the film but this is even better. Great performance as well. Definitely recommend it

A masterpiece

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Sam West made every one of Graham Greene’s words come alive and the story even more frightening than the very familiar film version that starred Richard Attenborough as Pinkie.

Wonderful narration

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