The setting for much of the novel, the Hotel Trianon, was inspired by the Hotel Oloffson in central Port-au-Prince.
Complications include Brown’s friendship with a rebel leader, politically charged hotel guests, the manipulations of a British arms dealer, and an affair with Martha Pineda, the wife of a South American ambassador. Brown, Smith, and Jones, their names suggesting a curious facelessness, are the “comedians” of Greene’s title. Jones, a confidence man, meet on a ship bound for Haiti. The story begins as three men, Brown, Smith, an “innocent” American, and Major H. Set in Haiti under the rule of François “Papa Doc” Duvalier and his secret police, the Tonton Macoute, the novel explores the political suppression and terrorism through the figure of an English hotel owner, Brown. The Comedians (1966) is a novel by Graham Greene.
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