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Experimenting with the genre: Green and the Confidential Agent

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From: Renascence
Date: 20021001
Author:Coates, John

His villains were almost always foreigners and foreigners, more often than not, were villains. Teutons, dagoes and Jews were the foreigners that The Breed particularly disliked. The Drummond books, right from the start, had foreign villains who were trying to smash England.1

RICHARD Usborne's deservedly well-known account of the world of John Buchan, Dornford Yates and "Sapper" (H. C. McNeile), the popular thriller writers of the 1920s and 1930s, offers a short route into one of the contexts for Graham Greene's The Confidential Agent (1939). It is worth knowing something of the thriller ...

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