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Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene6/9/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() * The novel was copyrighted in 1958 and published in 1959, thus the disparity in dates. Also, Jeremy Northam does a fine turn in the novel's audio version. The 1959 film version stars Alec Guiness, Burl Ives, and Maureen O'Hara.and Noel Coward as Hawthorne. But when his fake reports start coming true things suddenly get more complicated and Havana becomes a threatening place. In return all he has to do is file a few reports. 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. Wormold is a vacuum cleaner salesman in a city of power outages. 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. But when his fake reports start coming true, things suddenly get more complicated and Havana becomes a threatening place. ![]() A very good book with spotting to the page ages and name. In return all he has to do is carry out a little espionage and file a few reports. John Atkinson Fine & Rare Books - A first edition, first printing published by Heinemann in 1958. Our Man in Havana is an espionage thriller, a penetrating character study, and a political satire that still resonates today. His adolescent daughter spends his money with a skill that amazes him, so when a mysterious Englishman offers him an extra income hes tempted. ![]()
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