"He felt tired by all the lies he would some time have to tell; he felt the wounds of those victims who had not yet bled. . . . Somewhere on the face of those obscure waters moved the sense of yet another wrong and another victim, not Louise, nor Helen."

Greene's tale is dark and hardly redemptive, but as in THE POWER AND THE GLORY, Christ blazes forth suddenly in the least likely places--even in the faith of a man who is damned by his weakness.