A review by michaelmc
The Tenth Man by Graham Greene

4.0

Graham Green wrote The 10th Man and the other material in this volumn in 1944 when he was a contract writer for the MGM Studio which explains why the copy write belongs to MGM and not to the author Mr. Greene. These pages were not published or used at the time and were rediscovered and published with a new introduction by the author in 1985. The first section of the book is made up of sketches for possible movies that Greene wrote for MGM. They read somewhat like short stories and are quite clever. The bulk of the book is a short novel, The 10th Man. In the 10th Man there are thirty French prisoners of the the Nazis locked up together for reasons we don't know. Probably no reason at all. The Nazi official tells the prisoners that because the resistance has killed three people nearby three prisoners will be shot, but the prisoners must decide who the three will be. How do they dicide and what happens to the survivors afterward? Will anything good come out of this atrocity.