A hapless salesman in Cuba is recruited into Cold War spy games in
Greene’s classic “comical, satirical, atmospherical” novel (The
Daily Telegraph). James Wormold, a cash-strapped vacuum cleaner
salesman in Havana, finds the answer to his prayers when British
Intelligence offers him a lucrative job as an undercover agent. To
keep the checks coming, Wormold must at least pretend to know what
he’s doing. Soon, he’s apparently deciphering incomprehensible
codes, passing along sketches of secret weapons that look suspiciously
like vacuum parts, and claiming to recruit fellow operatives from his
country club, all to create the perfect picture of intrigue. But
when MI6 dispatches a secretary to oversee his endeavors, Wormold
fears his carelessly fabricated world will come undone. Instead, it
all comes true. Somehow, he’s become the target of an assassin, and
it’s going to take more than a fib to get out of Cuba alive. Her
Majesty’s man in Havana may have to resort to spying. Named one
of the 20 Best Spy Novels of All Time by the Telegraph and adapted
into the classic 1959 comedy starring Alec Guinness, Our Man in Havana
is “high-comic mayhem . . . weirdly undated . . . [and]
bizarrely prescient” (Christopher Buckley, New York
Times–bestselling author).
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ISBN
9781504052535
Publisert
2018
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Open Road Media
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
Digital bok
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