Author: Graham Greene
Published: 1940
Country: UK
Greene’s novel tells the story of a renegade Catholic ‘whisky priest’ (a term coined by Greene) living in the Mexican state of Tabasco in the 1930s, a time when the Mexican government was attempting to suppress the Catholic Church. That suppression had resulted in the Cristero War (1926–1929), so named for its Catholic combatants’ slogan “Viva Cristo Rey” (“Long live Christ the King”).