Our Man In Havana
Graham Greene author Christopher Hitchens editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:1st Mar '01
Should be back in stock very soon
'No serious writer of this century has more thoroughly invaded and shaped the public imagination than did Graham Greene' Time
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.
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
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 *
ISBN: 9780099286080
Dimensions: 197mm x 128mm x 15mm
Weight: 182g
256 pages