* 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. Greene uses the novel to mock intelligence services, especially the British MI6, and their willingness to believe reports from their local informants. But when his fake reports start coming true things suddenly get more complicated and Havana becomes a threatening place. Our Man in Havana (1958) is a novel set in Cuba by the British author Graham Greene. Choose from Same Day Delivery, Drive Up or Order Pickup. In return all he has to do is file a few reports. Read reviews and buy Our Man in Havana - (Penguin Classics) by Graham Greene (Paperback) at Target. 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. According to Hull, British writer Graham Greenes unplanned visit to Havana inspired him to resurrect a decade-old outline for an espionage story. Wormold is a vacuum cleaner salesman in a city of power outages.

A very good book with spotting to the page ages and name. 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. 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.

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