
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY PAUL THEROUXThree men meet on a ship bound for Haiti a world in the grip of the corrupt ' Papa Doc' & the Tontons Macoute his sinister secret police Brown the hotelier Smith the innocent American & Jones the confidence man
- these are the 'comedians' of Graham Greene's title Hiding behind their actors' masks they hesitate on the edge of life & to begin with they are men afraid of love afraid of pain afraid of fear itself