For any fascinated by Graham Greene, this is a must-read. Renowned for personal reserve, even prickliness, it took a friend, Marie-Francoise Allain to do what no other journalist had been able to do: to draw out of Greene some of his inner-most thoughts and perceptions. This was in part because of their friendship (she was the daughter of a French Resistance fighter and one of Greene’s amis de guerre), and in part because he saw her (rightly) as an accomplished literary critic and scholar rather than journalist.