The Lawless Roads is an account of Graham Greene's journey through Mexico in the 1930s. It was his mission to seek out and describe the Mexican Revolution's oppression of the Roman Catholic Church, and it was a mission he achieved cantankerously. The book thus offers an explicit view of a side of Graham Greene's character, the religion married to enduring guilt, that forms an implied basis for much of the author's other work. The Lawless Roads is no guide to Mexico. It is a travel around an author.