Graham Greene: Doubt in Many Places
Greene liked to live on “the dangerous edge of things.” Whether researching a story in Uruguay about the Tupamaros —a terrorist group, covering a civil war in Panama, or the French war in Indo-China, he believed in seeing the action for himself— like his character, Fowler, in The Quiet American–a journalist who does not attend the French press briefings but goes upcountry to experience the fighting for himself.