Our Man In Havana
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  • Published: 1 February 2011
  • ISBN: 9781407086699
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 256

Our Man In Havana

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Paperback
6 Apr 2001
EBook
1 Feb 2011
Audiobook
26 Mar 2020
Paperback
31 Jul 2007
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Bright, photographic, evocative new covers for Greene's backlist, to celebrate one of the keystone writers of the Vintage Classics list


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
  • Published: 1 February 2011
  • ISBN: 9781407086699
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 256
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About the author

Graham Greene

Graham Greene was born in 1904. He worked as a journalist and critic, and in 1940 became literary editor of the Spectator. He was later employed by the Foreign Office. As well as his many novels, Graham Greene wrote several collections of short stories, four travel books, six plays, three books of autobiography, two of biography and four books for children. He also wrote hundreds of essays, and film and book reviews. Graham Greene was a member of the Order of Merit and a Companion of Honour. He died in April 1991.

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Praise for Our Man In Havana

As comical, satirical, atmospherical an "entertainment" as he has given us

Daily Telegraph

British Intelligence being sent up something rotten

Daily Telegraph, 20 Best Spy Novels of All Time

Graham Greene captured a pre-Castro Cuba of daiquiris and decadence... hilarious

Independent

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

The human story is warm and the satire made me laugh out loud

Simon Shepherd, Daily Express