Our Man in Havana

Our Man in Havana

Graham Greene

First published in 1959, Our Man in Havana is an espionage thriller, a penetrating character study, and a political satire that still resonates today. Conceived as one of Graham Greene’s entertainments, it tells of MI6’s man in Havana, Wormold, a former vacuum-cleaner salesman turned reluctant secret agent out of economic necessity. To keep his job, he files bogus reports based on Lamb’s Tales from Shakespeare and dreams up military installations from vacuum-cleaner designs. Then his stories start coming disturbingly true.

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Our Man in Havana - Reviews

“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

“No serious writer of this century has more thoroughly invaded and shaped the public imagination than did Graham Greene”

Time

“As comical, satirical, atmospherical an ‘entertainment’ as he has given us.”

Daily Telegraph