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The fact that inspired the fiction: “…one felt the excitement of this state where the hunted priest had worked for so many years, hidden in the swamps and forests, with no leave train or billet behind the lines.”

Another perfect description by Graham Greene…”The cacti had no beauty—they were like some simple shorthand sign for such words as ‘barrenness’ and ‘draught’; you felt they were less the product than the cause of this dryness, that they had absorbed all the water there was in the land and held it as camels do in their green, aged, tubular bellies.”

I started this book at random early this year because I wanted to read another Graham Greene book after re as ing The Power and the Glory. I didn’t realize that this was the book of his travels in Mexico that formed the foundation of the story he wrote in The Power and the Glory. It’s neat to see familiar figures and places from the novel appear “in real life” in this travelogue.