Im not sure I entirely "got" this book. I would like to read it again at a later date. Maybe I expected to much from it. I found it to be a "Hemmingwayish" story that lacked the quality. Kind of a Vietnam "The Sun also Rises" However it maybe unfair to compare them. That being said it was a good story and because it was short I still enjoyed it. Had've it been a bigger slog to get through I would've been more unhappy. Still worth picking up though. Will read more Graham Greene.