Our Man in Havana

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Our Man in Havana

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ISBN: 9780142438008
author: Graham Greene
publishing house: Penguin Classics
publication date: 2007 -7
series: Penguin Classics
binding: Paperback
price: USD 15.00
number of pages: 228

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Graham Greeneas classic Cuban spy story, now with a new package and a new introduction First published in 1959, "Our Man in Havana" is an espionage thriller, a penetrating character study, and a political satire that still resonates today. Conceived as one of Graham Greeneas aentertainments, a it tells of MI6as man in Havana, Wormold, a former vacuum-cleaner salesman turned reluctant secret agent out of economic necessity. To keep his job, he files bogus reports based on Lambas "Tales from Shakespeare" and dreams up military installations from vacuum-cleaner designs. Then his stories start coming disturbingly true.

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