Graham Greene`s Brighton Rock is the classic murder tale set in 1930s Brighton & which was made into a successful feature film in 1948. A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Seventeen-year-old Pinkie, malign & ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can escape retribution, he is unprepared for the courageous, life-embracing Ida Arnold. Greene`s gripping thriller, exposes a world of loneliness & fear, of life lived on the `dangerous edge of things`. Although ostensibly an underworld thriller, the book is also an exploration of the nature of sin & the basis of morality; Pinkie & Rose are Roman Catholics, as was Greene, & their beliefs are contrasted with Ida`s strong but non-religious moral sensibility.