The Human Factor – Graham Greene

Sometime back in the late 1980s, I somehow acquired a paperback version of this 1978 novel.  It sat unread before being thrown in a box during a move at some point.  Within the past few years, I found it in a box of my things and decided to put it back in the “to-read” drawer, where it sat until earlier this week.

The Human Factor is a tale of an MI-6 agent assigned to the Africa desk who is passing information on to the Russians.  When a leak is detected in his office, his co-worker takes the fall, causing the double agent to quickly fall apart and reveal his true loyalties.

I’m not sure what I expected out of this book, but a slow burn British spy tale without any real action was certainly not it.  I had no previous experience with Graham Greene’s work, and, truth be told, I won’t be looking for any more.