First published in 1959, <i>Our Man in Havana</i> 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 <i>Tales from Shakespeare</i> and dreams up military installations from vacuum-cleaner designs. Then his stories start coming disturbingly true.
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