The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene

http://photos4.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/3/4/7/8/event_166633432.jpegThe Heart of the Matter (1948), is a novel by the English author Graham Greene. It deals with Catholicism and moral change in Scobie (a police officer) in a British West African Colony.

In this modern classic about a good man's conflict between passion and faith, a scrupulously honest police officer in British West Africa becomes enmeshed in intrigue and evil when he falls for a woman other than his wife.