![]() ![]() He invents agents, puts them on the payroll, and purloins the salaries of these fictitious employees to pay for his daughter’s excessive retail therapy. In actual fact, the book is a brilliant satire of that particular genre and parts of it are hilarious.įaced with the practical difficulties of spying, when you are stuck in a retail outlet all day and haven’t a clue how to go about the task, Wormold starts sending fake reports to London about a secret installation that is being built in the mountains of Cuba. However, you could be misled into thinking that the book is just another po-faced thriller engineered to keep readers on the edge of their seats. Espionage, murder, torture, poisoning, embezzlement and nail-biting tension are the elements that bubble away in the cauldron of this classic of the spy genre. But when his fake reports start coming true, things suddenly get more complicated and Havana becomes a threatening place. In return for the boost to his finances all he has to do is file a few reports. So when a mysterious Englishman offers him an extra income he is tempted. ![]() It is a story about a vacuum cleaner salesman, Wormold, who lives in Havana, whose adolescent daughter spends his money with a skill that dumbfounds him. I never quite got round to reading Graham Greene’s novel Our Man in Havana until recently. ![]()
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