内容摘要 格雷厄姆·格林的小说exposé讲述了战前黑社会的暴力和帮派斗争,这是此类小说的经典之作。Pinkie,一个正在崛起的青少年流氓,缺乏同情心和人性,蔑视精神和肉体上的软弱。小指是算计邪恶的化身,他不仅杀死了黑帮老大凯特,还杀死了威胁黑帮生计的记者黑尔。然而,作为一名天主教徒,小指坚信他的报应不会在人类手中。因此,他对黑尔的复仇天使艾达·阿诺德毫无准备。艾达忠于生命,此时此地,她对黑尔的死有自己的看法。为了获得纯粹的快乐,她接受了挑战,将地狱般的小指带到尘世的审判中。 Graham Greene's chilling exposé of violence and gang warfare in the pre-war underworld is a classic of its kind. Pinkie, a teenage gangster on the rise, is devoid of compassion or human feeling, despising weakness of both the spirit and the flesh. Responsible for the razor slashes that killed mob boss Kite and also for the death of Hale, a reporter who threatened the livelihood of the mob, Pinkie is the embodiment of calculated evil. As a Catholic, however, Pinkie is convinced that his retribution does not lie in human hands. He is therefore not prepared for Ida Arnold, Hale's avenging angel. Ida, whose allegiance is with life, the here and now, has her own ideas about the circumstances surrounding Hale's death. For the sheer joy of it, she takes up the challenge of bringing the infernal Pinkie to an earthly kind of justice
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