The Ministry of Fear

Graham Greene

“The Ministry of Fear is an outstanding entertainment. For even at his lightest, Mr. Greene preserves his high standard of intellectual originality.”
– Philip Toynbee in the New Statesman and Nation

“The skill with which Mr. Graham Greene conducts his intricate narrative is astounding. Technically the novel maintains an amazingly high level of accomplishment.”
– L.P. Hartley in the Sketch

Critics have said of him:

“He is one of the really significant novelists now writing in any language.”
– Sean O’Faolain in John o’ London’s Weekly

“Graham Greene is among the few, the very few, of our great living novelists.”
– Elizabeth Bowen in the Tatler

“His approach to the novel is like that of no novelist in English before him, though he is not without his successors. It is as if he had taken the bones of the conventional thriller, clothed them with life and character, and elevated them to a symbolic purpose; he has in fact seen what is psychologically archetypical in such popular literary themes as that of the hunted man and has dramatised them with all the vigour and consciousness of serious art.”
– from The Novel Since 1939, by Henry Reed (Longmans Green)

“He is an interesting and accomplished writer. He uses words like a master and creates pictures of startling force.”
– New Statesman and Nation