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Brought to you by Penguin.

Discover Graham Greene’s blackly comic and timely espionage thriller, set amid the vice and squalor of pre-revolutionary Havana.

'Graham Greene had wit and grace and character and story and a transcendent universal compassion that places him for all time in the ranks of world literature' John Le Carré

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.

© Graham Greene 1970 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

 Classics Espionage Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Spies & Politics Thriller & Suspense Funny Witty Fiction Suspense

Critic reviews

As comical, satirical, atmospherical an "entertainment" as he has given us
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
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
Graham Greene captured a pre-Castro Cuba of daiquiris and decadence... hilarious
British Intelligence being sent up something rotten
The human story is warm and the satire made me laugh out loud (Simon Shepherd)
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I had forgotten how wonderfully parodic this story lampooning the secret world is. What is even more surprising though is the extremely hot water Greene found himself with his old masters after publication. One can’t help but think that Le Carre’s later Panama Tailor draws heavily on Our Man in Havana, and although bleaker, is none the worse for that. Superbly narrated by Jeremy Northam

Sublime parody

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I thought I no longer really liked fiction Audiobooks, but thought I’d give this one a go. I was not disappointed.

I think I enjoyed the book more because I didn’t really know what the premise was, other than recognising that it was about a foreign intelligence service’s “man in Havana” from the title, so I won’t give too much away in my review.

Absolutely fantastic!

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Narrator was brilliant. Ace story with wit and intrigue intertwined. Sadly film version was not but enjoyed seeing Cuba as it was in 1950s
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Brilliant storytelling and cracking plot 😊

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Great story with humour thoroughly enjoyed it don’t know how I missed reading this years ago

Can’t believe I missed this

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This is the second Graham Greene novel that I’ve listened to using audible and I really devoured it. Admittedly it hasn’t translated well in current times due to some of the less favourable language times used, however, looking past that I could really picture myself working in an agency in Havana.

Anyone for a daiquiri?

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