Every so often I pick up another Graham Greene. This hardback was left in my free little library, although it turned out I already had a different version on my shelf. I read them more for the prose than the stories which often seem to be about middle-aged professional white men, lapsed Catholics and unhappy womanizers who are facing some sort of crisis. This time Querry is a famous architect, running away from work, women, and most especially fame. He takes a boat down a tributary of the Congo as far as it will go and ends up at a Catholic mission and a leper hospital, but fame, or notoriety follows him even here. There is a lot of talk about Catholicism and the difficulty of fame and I wondered how much the latter reflected on how Greene was feeling about his. Enjoyable.