The End of the Affair
Graham Greene

It seems unlikely that Greene would write this book without at least some element of truthfulness from his own life experience.

Disguised as a story after of adultery, a long and rocky love affair, the book hides the true power. The underline of the book is about the inescapability of the claims of Christ. As David said…there is no where that we can go to escape him…we reach the very heavens, and He is there. We descend to the depths of Hades and He is there. We have no where to run and we have no where to hide.

In the book the main character Bendrix has had a long affair with Sarah, but Sarah has cut it off. The story begins with Sarah’s husband Henry confiding in Bendrix that he suspects Sarah’s infidelity, this years after Bendrix affair was over, and asks Bendrix to hire a private detective on his behalf.

Through the course of events, Henry and Bendrix are forced together in true friendship by the death of Sarah. Only after her death does Bendrix find out that Sarah, the devout atheist, had been attending the Roman Catholic Church and going through catechism in order to join. She had rejected her life long anti-God beliefs and embraced the church much to the chagrin of her atheist teachers and friends. Posthumously Bendrix and others read in her journal that though she fought and strove against it, Sarah could not escape Christ. She felt magnetized to the Church.

Bendrix eventually finds out from Sarah’s mother that she, though she was never a Christian, had Sarah baptized as an act of rebellion toward Sarah’s father when she was but an infant.

The story is about Christ, predestination, and the power of God to save and keep His own.

The picture is of a building in downtown Three Rivers, and the eye blinds always remember me of God watching over me. I cannot escape his goodness or his knowing.

Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence? If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.
(Psa 139:7-8)