My second and third novels, "The Name of Action" and "Rumour at Nightfall" published in 1930 and 1931, can now be found, I am glad to secondhand bookshops at an exaggerated price, since some years after their publication I suppressed them. Both books are of a badness beyond the power of criticism properly to evoke, the prose flat and stilted - the characterization nonexistent.

Graham Greene, Ways Of Escape, pages 6-17