The Quiet American by Graham Greene

The Quiet American by Graham Greene was published in 1955. Thomas Fowler is a British journalist in his fifties who has covered the French war in Vietnam for more than two years. Fowler has a live-in lover, Phuong, who is only 20 years old and was previously a dancer at The Arc-en-Ciel. He meets a young American idealist named Alden Pyle, a CIA agent working undercover…