In a prison is occupied France one in every ten men is to be shot. The prisoners draw lots among themselves, and for rich lawyer Lewis Chavel it seems that his whole life has been leading up to an agonizing and crucial failure of nerve. Graham Greene wrote The Tenth Man in 1944, when he was under a two-year contract with MetroGoldwyn Mayer and the manuscript lay forgotten in MGM's archives until 1983. It was published two years later and introduced by the author. 'All the Greene hallmarks are there: pace, ingenuity, a sense of profundities suggested but never insisted upon' -Penelope Lively, Sunday Telegraph-