false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181277502m/1136169.jpg 213653 9 For Arthur Rowe, the trip to the charity fete was a joyful step back into adolescence, a chance to forget the nightmare of the blitz—and the aching guilt of having mercifully murdered his sick wife. He was surviving alone, aside from the war, until he happened to guess both the true and the false weight of the cake. From that moment, he finds himself ruthlessly hunted, the quarry of malign and shadowy forces, from which he endeavors to escape with a mind that remains obstinately out of focus. 1884106 1943 The Ministry of Fear: An Entertainment (Penguin Classics) total:382|5:67|4:185|3:115|2:13|1:2| 382 1448 527 34 213653 0143039113 9780143039112 340 30 3.79 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172762279m/213653.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/213653.The_Ministry_of_Fear_An_Entertainment 3 0 false Sun Aug 28 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Sun Jul 26 18:37:10 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 26 18:40:06 -0700 2009
This was my first (and possibly last) reading of a Graham Greene novel. I wanted to read one of Greene's novels to get a sense for the origin of the modern espionage genre. I chose his first "spy" novel (taking my cue from LeCarre) to avoid the overload of an...more...]]> 213653 0143039113 9780143039112 340 30 3.79 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172762279m/213653.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/213653.The_Ministry_of_Fear_An_Entertainment 5 0 false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Sep 02 09:26:59 -0700 2009 Sat Nov 14 22:42:28 -0800 2009
Here's the thing; sad, gentle Arthur Rowe is a murderer. He has just been releas...more...]]> 824392 0099286181 9780099286189 9 1 3.79 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178716413m/824392.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/824392.The_Ministry_of_Fear_An_Entertainment 4 0 false Wed Apr 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Nov 10 10:36:56 -0800 2008 Wed Apr 15 16:51:29 -0700 2009 entertainments. WWII, London's getting bombed, Rowe wins a cake, people are not who they seem and then they are, and I craved cake but not the fruity kind. 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