"The ultimate chronicler of twentieth-century man?s consciousness and anxiety." (William Golding)

A great book confronting forgiveness, faith and failure in the 20th century. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY PAUL THEROUXThree men meet on a ship bound for Haiti, a country in the grip of the corrupt 'Papa Doc' and the Tontons Macoute, his sinister secret police. Brown the hotelier, Smith the innocent American and Jones the con man - these are the 'comedians' of Graham Greene's title. Hiding behind their actors' masks, they hesitate on the edge of life. And, to begin with, they are men afraid of love, afraid of pain, afraid of fear itself...