BRIGHTON ROCK Graham Greene Viking ($2.50).
Graham Greene, good-looking, slender, 33, is a cousin of Robert Louis Stevenson. His first novel, The Man Within (1929), a psychological study of a cowardly smuggler, bore strong resemblances to Treasure Island. His psychological-action novels have continued to show a Stevenson influence. But though he got off to a flying start with his Stevenson inheritance, he has never been able to travel far on it.
At its best, Brighton Rock, a psychological gangster novel, creates an atmosphere as sinister as The Strange Case of Dr....
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