The Seeds of Fiction (59 page)

Graham and Fr Jean-Claude Bajeux (left) on the bridge over the Massacre River at Dajabón, from which Graham photographed Haiti from the relative safety of no man's land (below).

Bernard Diederich changing a tyre on his Volkswagen after returning to Santo Domingo following the border trip

Graham Greene Démasqué,
Papa Doc's case against Graham following publication of
The Comedians;
the 92-page pamphlet included such denunciations of its subject as ‘a liar, a cretin, a stool pigeon'.

The poster advertising the film adaptation of the 1967 film of
The Comedians
(left); the film was finally shown in Haiti in 1986 (above), nineteen years after its original release.

Left and below: General Omar Torrijos, the Panamanian leader, in his element among his people in the countryside

Above: Graham and Torrijos getting to know one another on Contadora Island, Panama, 1976, the day they met

Above: Graham and Torrijos getting to know one another on Contadora Island, Panama, 1976, the day they met

Graham and Bernard Diederich (with rum punches) with Torrijos's friend Rory Gonzales on Contadora Island, Panama, the day Graham met the General in 1976

Graham in 1976 on the Panama Canal train linking Balboa with Cristóbal (above) and (right) at Cristóbal station in the then American-run Canal Zone

Graham fumbles with his camera on arrival at Cristóbal railway station; he was never at home with mechanical items.

Graham and Bernard Diederich in the gardens of the George Washington Hotel, Colon, Panama, 1976