Our man in Havana Graham Greene ; introduction by Christopher Hitchens.
Series: Penguin classicsPublication details: New York : Penguin Books, 2007.Description: xxiii, 228 p. ;20 cmISBN:- 9780142438008
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First published in 1957, Our Man in Havana is an espionage thriller, a penetrating character study, and a political satire that still resonates to this day. 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.