Hunters in the Dark

A blurb on the cover of Lawrence Osborne's new novel, Hunters in the Dark, declares him to be "a modern Graham Greene." Readers might be inclined to react with skepticism to such claims; after all they rarely match the reality. And what's more, in the context of a book set in 21st century Cambodia, a Greene comparison might well be a worrying signal, warning of all sorts of tawdry anachronisms and generic "white man in the tropics" clichés.