The Heart Of The Matter

Penguin Books (Jul 27, 1978)

9780140017892

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272 pages | 112 x 175 mm | English

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Dewey 823/.912

Subject

Africa, West
Fiction / Classics
Fiction / Literary
Great Britain

Plot

Scobie, a police officer serving in a war-time West African state, is distrusted, being scrupulously honest and immune to bribery. Then, passed over for promotion, he is forced to borrow money from a Syrian trader to send his faded wife Louise on holiday. In her absence, he falls in love with a pathetic child widow ... and, inexorably, his conscience and his love of God lead him to disaster.

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