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The Quiet American is a 1955 novel by English author Graham Greene. Narrated in the first person by journalist Thomas Fowler, the novel depicts the breakdown of French colonialism in Vietnam and early American involvement in the Vietnam War.
Thomas Fowler is a middle-aged British journalist living in Saigon and covering the conflict in Vietnam between the French colonial forces and the Viet Minh communists. Two years into his assignment he meets Alden Pyle, an American intelligence operative working undercover in the Economic Aid Mission.
The Quiet American, published in 1955, is a novel by British author Graham Greene. It is set in 1950s Vietnam, amidst French colonial struggles and the emerging American involvement.
Jan 30, 2003 · Fowler and Pyle, the quiet American of the title, compete for the attentions of Phuong, a young Vietnamese woman. Love and war in an exotic locale is a cinematic staple, but in Greene's novels...
The Quiet American is the story of a British journalist covering the war in 1950s French Indochina and the annoying American who disrupts his complacent lifestyle. Sure, he’s in a war zone, but he has never had it better.
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Oct 25, 2002 · Set in Saigon in 1952, Australian director Phillip Noyce's superb political thriller based on Graham Greene's prescient novel does precisely this. The film...
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Feb 7, 2003 · Graham Greene’s novel The Quiet American (1955) told the story of this triangle against the background of America’s adventure in Vietnam in the early 1950s–when, he shows us, the CIA used pleasant, presentable agents like Pyle to pose as “aid workers” while arranging terrorist acts that would justify our intervention there.
