The Human Factor (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Graham Greene
- First Published: 1978
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Spy
- Time of Work: Late Cold War era
- Setting: Suburban Berkhamsted and London
- Genres: Long fiction, Spy fiction
- Subjects: 1960’s, Africa or Africans, Blacks, England or English people, London, South Africa or South Africans, Espionage or spies, Russia or Russian people, Soviet Union or Soviets, Apartheid
- Locales: London, England, Moscow, Russia, South Africa, Berkhamsted, England
Characters Discussed
Maurice Castle, a sixty-two-year-old agent in British intelligence who is leaking governmental information about South Africa to the Communists. Castle’s reason is his gratitude to Carson, a friend who gave Marxism a human face for him by arranging for the escape from prison of Sarah, the black South African Castle later married. Although he is scrupulously careful, Castle suspects that his leaks have been noticed. Nevertheless, Castle conveys to his Russian contact, Boris, information about Uncle Remus, a secret operation of the United States and Britain...
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