I love The Power and the Glory.
This is a comedy, or an entertainment as Greene would have it. It is funny. It is also a hugely pertinent satire that resonates today. When you have sexed up dossiers, ex-prime ministers schmoozing Gadaffi in secret and political parties and corporations simply making up stories to bolster their voice then this story remains solidly relevant.
Wormold is a flaccid and really post modern character. The people he comes across as feeble, ruthless and futile as any you might bump into in Louis De Berniere's South American Trilogy but without the magical realism.
It is a lovely piece of writing and is what one might call a sideshow attraction. However, it's a sideshow attraction with heart and a punchy message.
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