Our Man in Havana

Name: Our Man in Havana
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Graham Greene
ISBN: 9798855512649

Author: Graham Greene

Narrator: Matthew Lloyd Davies

Unabridged: 7 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/26/2024

Categories: Fiction, Classic, Suspense & Thriller, Espionage

Synopsis

MI6's man in Havana is Wormold, a former vacuum-cleaner salesman turned reluctant secret agent out of economic necessity. To keep his job, he files bogus reports based on Charles Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare and dreams up military installations from vacuum-cleaner designs. Then his stories start coming disturbingly true . . .

First published in 1959 against the backdrop of the Cold War, Our Man in Havana remains one of Graham Greene's most widely enjoyed novels. It is an espionage thriller, a penetrating character study, and a political satire of government intelligence that still resonates today.

About Graham Greene

Graham Greene (1904-1991) is recognized as one of the most important writers of the twentieth century, achieving both literary acclaim and popular success. His best-known works include Brighton Rock, The Heart of the Matter, The Quiet American, and The Power and the Glory. After leaving Oxford, Greene first pursued a career in journalism before dedicating himself full-time to writing with his first big success, Stamboul Train. He became involved in screenwriting and wrote adaptations for the cinema as well as original screenplays, the most successful being The Third Man. Religious, moral, and political themes are at the root of much of his work, and throughout his life he traveled to some of the wildest and most volatile parts of the world, which provided settings for his fiction. Greene was a member of the Order of Merit and a Companion of Honour.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Candi on January 26, 2019

"Patriotic Englishman. Been here for years. Respected member of the European Traders’ Association. We must have our man in Havana, you know. Submarines need fuel. Dictators drift together. Big ones draw in the little ones." If there was an award for most unlikely to succeed as a spy, Englishman James......more

Goodreads review by Baba on November 12, 2022

A wonderful post World War II black comedy from Greene. 'Our Man in Havana' is vacuum cleaner salesman Jim Wormold, who has a 16 year old daughter at a convent school, that always seems to find ways to spend his money, when she's not being driven around town by the Chief of Police, Segura. Wormold is......more

Goodreads review by Bionic Jean on October 25, 2024

Graham Greene is one of the most highly regarded British authors of the 20th century. The American novelist John Irving has paid tribute to him, calling him, "the most accomplished living novelist in the English language." Very popular as a thriller-writer, writing "entertainments", as he called them,......more

Goodreads review by Henry on August 18, 2024

A quite obscure small -time businessman, Mr. Wormold (nobody calls him James) an Englishman living in Havana before the revolution in the late 1950's, who sells vacuum cleaners in Cuba... however not many and his beautiful teenage daughter Milly needs a horse...why ? A silly question ... because she......more