The columnist describes the novel as a thriller, historical fiction novel and also includes a bit of tragedy in it. Basically what the man is trying to say is that the reader should prepare himself (while reading The Power & The Glory) to feel a wide variety of emotions rush through his/her body, find historical facts and at the same time 'presence' terrible acts against the priest and the people of Mexico. You can even see these three genres listed on this passage of the original article. We see dates and facts which lead us to the historical fiction, he mentions the thriller genre and at the end he talks about the people's flaws which lead to a tragedy genre.
Chicago Tribune Column
"The Power and the Glory" by Graham Greene. You want a novel about atonement? In a Mexican state in the 1930s, the Catholic Church has been outlawed. The last priest--the whiskey priest--is on the run from the firing squad. Greene's 1940 classic, as gripping as a modern thriller, is a generous yet merciless portrayal of humans and their church. Everyone is flawed--the priests, the people who loathe them, the people who want them to be saints--but courage sometimes flickers even in the cynical, corrupted soul.
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