Jenny Thomas from the Battersea Society Events Committee will be hosting the Book Club meeting - and the book up for discussion is … The Quiet American by Graham Greene.  This 1955 classic warns against naivety and an unwavering ideological commitment to a so-called ‘greater good’ in foreign policy, and continues to ring true today. Included in the BBC’s List of 100 Novels That Shaped Our World in the ‘Crime & Conflict’ section, the book is narrated by veteran British journalist Thomas Fowler (who prefers to go by his surname) and his dealings with young, fresh-faced CIA agent Alden Pyle (whom Fowler refuses to call Alden) in 1950s Vietnam during the First Indochina War, as French colonial forces fight to maintain control of the country. 

Please let us know if you would like to join us, so we have some idea of numbers. You can email bookclub@batterseasociety.org.uk