Description

Discover Graham Greene’s blackly comic and timely espionage thriller, set amid the vice and squalor of pre-revolutionary Havana.

‘British Intelligence being sent up something rotten’ Daily Telegraph

Wormold is a vacuum cleaner salesman in a city of power cuts. His adolescent daughter spends his money with a skill that amazes him, so when a mysterious Englishman offers him an extra income he’s tempted. In return all he has to do is carry out a little espionage and file a few reports. But when his fake reports start coming true, things suddenly get more complicated and Havana becomes a threatening place.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

Publisher Review

As comical, satirical, atmospherical an "entertainment" as he has given us * Daily Telegraph * He had a sharp nose for trouble and injustice. In Our Man In Havana - a witty send-up of an agent's life - it was Cuba before Castro * Financial Times * Nobody should be anywhere near power who hasn't read (or seen the film of) Our Man in Havana, a powerful satire on the silly world of spying by a man who had experienced it * Mail on Sunday * Graham Greene captured a pre-Castro Cuba of daiquiris and decadence... hilarious * Independent * British Intelligence being sent up something rotten * Daily Telegraph, 20 Best Spy Novels of All Time * The human story is warm and the satire made me laugh out loud -- Simon Shepherd * Daily Express *