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Brighton Rock

Graham Greene
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crime fiction hardboiled detective novel past tense third limited POV ~354 pp
features extracted 2026-04-12

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grim oppressive desperate

A dark crime fiction. Expect minimal worldbuilding, dense, literary prose. Plot-driven. Ends on an unresolved note. Contains notable violence.

Style Fingerprint

Prose density 75
sparsedense
Pacing 40
slow burnpropulsive
Emotional tone 20
darkhopeful
Worldbuilding 10
minimalmaximal
Char / plot 80
character-drivenplot-driven
Interiority 60
externalintrospective
Ending 10
unresolvedcathartic
Stakes 60
intimateepic

Content

Violence 85%
noneextreme
Sexual content 45%
noneexplicit
Humor 15%
seriouscomedic
Romance 35%
nonecentral

Structure & Cast

Structure
Word count88,501
Page count~354 pp
Prologue—
Epilogue—
Tensepast
Cast & World
POVthird limited

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