This spells trouble for Pinkie and to cover his tracks he must spill more blood, battle with local gangster Colleoni, and marry a sixteen-year-old waitress, Rose, to stop her testifying against him. Knowing in her gut that things are not right, Ida sets out to uncover the truth. Ida, who, when Hale disappeared, assumed she had been passed over, only learns of his death, reported in the local news as a result of a health condition, a few days later.
Pinkie, a scrawny but sociopathically cold seventeen-year-old, is the (ironically) Bonapartean leader of the gang, and he doesn’t flinch as his crew murder Hale. But Ida Arnold cannot save him, and soon the gang catch up with Hale. Latching on to a buxom, good-time girl down from London, Hale hopes to escape the gang’s clutches. Later known by his real name, Hale, he has fallen in with the wrong crowd, and a quiet day by the sea soon turns into a race against death as a local gang pursue him. Kolley Kibber, or Fred, is a newspaper man visiting Brighton for work.
Brighton Rock (1938) is one of Graham Greene’s most famous works, and one of his ‘Catholic novels’.
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