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The Honorary Consul (Masterplots II: British and Commonwealth Fiction Series)

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The Novel

In Graham Greene’s The Honorary Consul a group of Paraguayan revolutionaries attempt to kidnap the American ambassador to Argentina. By mistake, however, they seize Charles Fortnum, the British Honorary Consul, who has accompanied the Ambassador on a visit to some ruins in the north. Much of the action of the novel deals with the consequences, for various individuals, of the bungled kidnaping.

The novel opens in a small river port in northern Argentina on the Tuesday evening of the kidnaping. Doctor Eduardo Plarr is anxious. Because of a complex of...

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