Graham greene project gutenberg selfpublishing ebooks. Inside the cias dysfunctional intelligence culture, a 2008 nonfiction book by ishmael jones. People are torn apart from one another simply because of a lack of understanding or a difference in each individuals definition of life. It required those who took part to be active as it consisted of a three mile guided walk led by brian shepherd. Sep 28, 2008 graham greenes the human factor is based on greenes experiences in british intelligence during world war ii, as well as his travels to remote locations in british colonial outposts in africa and elsewhere in the 1940s and 1950s. The human factor is one of graham greenes later novels, first published in 1978 when the author was at the ripe old age of 74. Just as it is impossible to read the human factor and not wonder about the underlying motives that made people not only join the secret service but also. Buy the human factor by graham greene from waterstones today.
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