Getting to Know the General Methuen His marvellously funny - though

His marvellously funny - though characteristically unsparing - view is combined with his vivid realisation of the dust

and the bonds of blood and fate that connect them all

When a third body is found crucified upside down in the middle of the ancient forum Allegra realises there is a sinister link between the murders

But to discover the truth

Getting to Know the General Methuen His marvellously funny - though'In August 1981 my bag was packed for my fifth visit to Panama when the news came to me over the telephone of the death of General Omar Torrijos Herrera, my friend and host. . . At that moment the idea came to me to write a short personal memoir. . . of a man I had grown to love over those five years' GETTING TO KNOW THE GENERAL is Graham Greene's account of a five year personal involvement with Omar Torrijos, ruler of Panama from 1968 81 and Sergeant