The Lawless Roads

"A singularly beautiful travel book" and an eyewitness account of religious and political persecution in Mexico from the author of The Power and the Glory (New Statesman).

In 1938, Graham Greene, a burgeoning convert to Roman Catholicism, was commissioned to expose the anticlerical purges in Mexico by President Plutarco El as Calles. Churches had been destroyed, peasants held secret masses in their homes, religious icons were banned, and priests disappeared. Traveling under the growing cloud...