'The power and the glory' by Graham Greene: a review

 This book is a kind of road movie set in the Mexican revolution in the twentieth century.

The novel relates the pursuing of a priest by the police and his runaway to a Northern state. During his road the priest debates between leaving his religious duties -being a sinner and a betrayer to his faith- or going on until the foreseen end, being a martyr. Its plot evolves to an unexpected end for the reader.

The strongest point of the book is the drawing of secondary characters. Thus the lieutenant, a man obsessed in haunting the priest; padre José, a regretting priest who has conformed to the law and has got married; and Maria, a peasant who had an affair with the priest. The weakness of the novel, if there is any, is some inconsistency in the priest’s character, like his easiness to getting over from his alcoholism.

This book is very recommendable. It will appeal to readers who like good literature, for it is considered as a masterpiece.