Orient-Express

As the Orient Express hurtles across Europe on its three-day journey from

Ostend to Constantinople, the driven lives of several of its passengers become

bound together in a fateful interlock. The menagerie of characters include

Coral Musker, a beautiful chorus girl; Carleton Myatt, a rich Jewish

businessman; Richard John, a mysterious and kind doctor returning to his

native Belgrade; the spiteful journalist Mabel Warren; and Josef Grunlich, a

cunning, murderous burglar.

What happens to these strangers as they put on and take off their masks of

identity and passion, all the while confessing, prevaricating, and reaching

out to one another in the "veracious air" of the onrushing train, makes for

one of Graham Greene's most exciting and suspenseful stories. Originally

published in 1933, _Orient Express_ was Greene's first major success. This

Graham Greene Centennial Edition features a new introductory essay by

Christopher Hitchens.