![]() He will pay for his rallying of the Third Force with his life. These are going to make not only his pants and boots splattered with blood but his hands as well. He blindly follows this York fellow and doesn’t know that his ideologies are going to be murderous. He keeps on preaching about York’s Third Force that will solve the problem that is Vietnam. Alden Pyle, the eponymous American, is a well-meaning CIA agent who’s out there to put into practice the theory of his favorite political author. That’s what it seems to be telling me, at least on the surface.īut if you chip away that surface, there’s a tale of moral complexity that takes the form of a murder mystery. Americans should have known better than to get mixed with the affairs of Vietnam, and now look at what happened. ![]() It is seen by some as Greene’s anti-American sentiments. ![]() The Quiet American is a quintessential book of the American involvement in the Vietnam War. Book Club Book Review – The Quiet American by Graham Greene ![]()
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