A great writer who spoke brilliantly to a whole generation
Alec Guinness,

Trenchant account of the writer's childhood, boyhood, youth. Straightforwardly presents the rash acts like the Russian roulette sessions resembling initiation rites as much as escapes from boredom. It has startling insights, and shrewd appraisals of literary elders, if not betters.
Observer

The setting of his life is beautifully observed and conveyed. I have never admired his writing more - the masterly skill and economy; the excitement he manages to pump, not just into the narrative, but into the very sentences, which throb and glow themselves
Observer

A subversive hero, self-consciously seeking out (in Browning's words) ''the dangerous edge of things,'' who lived everywhere and nowhere, a man whom few people ever knew... Greene was a restless traveler, a committed writer, a terrible husband, an appalling father and an admitted manic-depressive
New York Times

This is the work of a remarkable man determined to show he is not particularly remarkable... his fame is secure
Daily Telegraph

Greene wrote some of the most commanding English novels of the twentieth century and some of the slickest commercial thrillers
Newsday