the quiet american is a book by which british writer

Fowler can't marry Phuong because his wife refuses to divorce (she's Roman-Catholic).ġ/5 Pyle succeeds in finding air transport to Saigon via Hanoi. When Fowler wants to get asleep in the office quarter, Pyle appears, he has followed Fowler all alone despite all dangers, to tell him he is in love with Phuong. Fowler is present when they meet a lot of dead bodies in a canal. The innocent Pyle suggests leaving the house before the evening starts getting rude.ġ/4 The war scene near Phat Diem is described: a church full of refugees, a walk with 12 combatants. Pyle dances with Phuong and starts to love her.

Afterwards the house of the 500 girls is visited. Fowler and Phuong go and get the properties of Phuong from Pyle's home, where they meet Vigot and realise that Pyle's dog, present on a photograph, has also disappeared.ġ/3 The first meeting between Pyle and Phuong, together with other people at the continental bar, where war events in the north are discussed. Fowler is rather critical about Pyle's innocent ideas and behaviour. York Harding's book 'The advance of red China' suggests that Vietnam needs a 'third force'. They discuss the work of the diplomatic correspondent York Harding, who has a great influence on Pyle's thinking. Fowler tells the bad news to Phuong afterwards, who decides to stay with Fowler again.ġ/2 The first meeting between Pyle and Fowler is described, right after Pyle's arrival. Pyle, the diplomat is wounded in the chest, but the real cause of death is mud in his lungs. They smoke opium, until the police arrives and they are interrogated at the police office by Vigot.

He is involved in the events round the death of an American diplomat because the mistress of the diplomat lived with Fowler for a long time and Fowler was a friend of the diplomat (Pyle).ġ/1 Fowler waits for Pyle, together with Phuong, his former mistress, which is now Pyle's girl friend and wife-to-be. Fowler is a British reporter living in Saigon during the French-Indochina-war.

The quiet american is a book by which british writer