10TH MAN

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Summary: Captures your curiosity.
Review: A short, sweet tale of a man, whose financial status gives him the ability to save himself when faced with a life or death situation. Circumstances once again prove that money, a timeless denominator, continues to offer the rich unusual buying power.

While the story is short and doesn't offer a rich sense of character development, I still found myself extremely curious as to what would happen next. The moral decisions we make, whether hasty or well thought out, keep the human species an interesting animal to watch. I enjoyed the originality of the book, the desperate search for survival by the rich and the moral integrity of the poor. Definitely worth the time spent on a rainy afternoon.

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Summary: Greene's most brilliant novel
Review: Graham Greene has always struck me as an author who took little joy in writing. His short stories are very short, and some of his novels tread the fine line between novel and novella. But what he puts into those brief pages are stunning, and definitely leaves you yearning for more.

THE TENTH MAN is probably the one that best exemplifies this feeling. The novel ended so quickly (for me) that I was angry it was over. Not because I felt cheated, but because he had me so taken in by the plot and the tensions created by the choices the characters made, that I wanted it to go on, even just a little longer. But by all means, pick up THE TENTH MAN and just about anything else by Graham Greene.

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Summary: Just a reading
Review: This short story is not a thriller but will keep you reading all the time, if you read this book in a long flight you could end it in that flight.
The story don't have any message and the end is not excellent but is good enough, of course nobody knows what anybody will do in case that he knows that is going to die, you can't say that Chavel is guilty of what he did.