Three men meet on a ship bound for Haiti, a world in the grip of the
corrupt "Papa Doc" and the Tontons Macoute, his sinister secret police.
Brown the hotelier, Smith the innocent American, and Jones the
confidence man--these are the "comedians" of Greene's title. Hiding
behind their actors' masks, they hesitate on the edge of life. They are
men afraid of love, afraid of pain, afraid of fear itself...
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