cover image The Captain and the Enemy

The Captain and the Enemy

Graham Greene. Penguin Books, $7.95 (192pp) ISBN 978-0-14-012418-7

Victor Baxter was adopted, possibly kidnapped, at age 12 into a strange family as a substitute for a child who died. As he grows older, he becomes involved in some of the suspicious enterprises of his foster father, ``The Captain,'' an apparent gunrunner. PW called this novel ``exquisitely understated, moving and graced by humorous touches.'' (Sept.)