Research articles

In this article, Mike Hill explores Graham Greene’s last, short novel, The Captain and the Enemy (1988), something of an overlooked masterpiece. The story traverses Berkhamsted, Greene’s birthplace, London and then Panama, a country he came to know well late in life. However, when and under what circumstances the novel was written has always been something of a puzzle – but one that Mike sets out to solve. (This article first appeared in A Sort of Newsletter, the magazine of the Graham Greene Birthplace Trust edited by Mike Hill himself, in 2014. It is reproduced here with all requisite permissions).

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