The Power and the Glory

The Power and the Glory (1940) is a novel by British author Graham Greene. This novel has also been published in the US under the name The Labyrinthine Ways. In 2005, the novel was chosen by TIME magazine as one of the one hundred best English-language novels from 1923 to present.

Many novelists consider the novel to be Greene's masterpiece, as John Updike claimed in his introduction to the 1990 reprint of the novel. Upon its publication, William Golding claimed Greene had "captured the conscience of the twentieth century man like no other." It is one of President of America Barack Obama's favourite books.