Depicting a world dominated by insoluble contradictions and ruled by paradox, the novel “The Honorary Consul” (1973) demonstrates the topicality of Greene’s work. This not only determines the plot of the story, but also draws the characters into a dispute about faith and disbelief, about the goodness or cruelty of God, about humanism and the problem of revolutionary violence. The novel The Human Factor (1978), a book about a double agent of special services, reflected the author's concern for the fate of the human element in the modern world, facing an indifferent and even hostile state machine. In the story “Dr. Fisher from Geneva, or Dinner with a Bomb” (1980), an arrogant rich man and misanthrope, putting psychological experiments on his guests, finds out what the limits of greed and to what extent humiliation can reach people subject to the cult of profit.