w a man who had better motives for all the trouble he causedö (Greene 133, Noyce 2001). The ôtroubleö Pyle causes is an understatement, as it leads to acts of terrorism against innocent bystanders. Pyle, for all his high ideals and seeming lack of guile, is not the well-mannered proper Bostonian he appears to be (although that is a part of his character as well), but a CIA operative posing as an Economic Attache to a U.S. humanitarian Economic Mission, and he is certain that he has the moral imperative to use any means to achieve what he regards as noble ends, even acts of terror, all in the name of democracy. If the truly innocent die for democracy, then their death was for the right cause. Fowler reports, ôPyle was very earnest and I had suffered from his lectures on the Far EastàDemocracy was another subject of his û he had pronounced and aggravating views on what the United States was doing for the world.ö
The Quiet American is a political thriller, a murder mystery and a love story. In his fiction, Greene uses the detective story as a ômod
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