The novel became an international best seller. His adultery and ultimate fate, as well as the visit of one of the characters to a brothel, might render The Heart of the Matter suitable primarily for more mature readers. Scobie commits acts that leave him deeply ashamed. He is also a Catholic who faces a life-altering moral crisis that arises from his relationships with his unhappy wife, Louise, and his mistress, Helen.
The enigmatic protagonist, Major Henry Scobie, is a deputy police commissioner responsible for security in the colony.
The Heart of the Matter encompasses a wide range of concerns: war, espionage, love, adultery, pity, and betrayal. The setting is based on Greene's experience as a British intelligence agent in Sierra Leone during the war, although he insisted that the novel's setting is fictional and that his characters are not to be identified with anyone he encountered there. Considered by many critics to be a masterpiece of twentieth-century literature, the novel is set in an unnamed British colonial outpost in West Africa during World War II. The Heart of the Matter, first published in 1948, is a novel by British author Graham Greene.
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