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Our Man in HavanaGraham Greene Inauspicious vacuum cleaner retailer, Mr Wormold, agrees to enlist in the British Secret Service, mainly in order to pay for his beautiful and willful daughter Milly’s increasingly expensive tastes, and soon finds himself caught in the centre of a deadly conspiracy entirely of his own devising. In this black comedy that predates the Cuban Missile Crisis, Greene presents a world of espionage: where men are not as they exist in reality; but as they are created through the power of another man’s imagination, and where the only thing that makes a man real: is not loyalty to country, government or institution; but the love and empathy he elicits from a fellow human being. The photograph is of the First Edition, published by William Heinmann in 1958, with a wrapper design by Donald Green. For further book scraps, please follow on Twitter.

Our Man in Havana
Graham Greene


Inauspicious vacuum cleaner retailer, Mr Wormold, agrees to enlist in the British Secret Service, mainly in order to pay for his beautiful and willful daughter Milly’s increasingly expensive tastes, and soon finds himself caught in the centre of a deadly conspiracy entirely of his own devising.


In this black comedy that predates the Cuban Missile Crisis, Greene presents a world of espionage: where men are not as they exist in reality; but as they are created through the power of another man’s imagination, and where the only thing that makes a man real: is not loyalty to country, government or institution; but the love and empathy he elicits from a fellow human being.


The photograph is of the First Edition, published by William Heinmann in 1958, with a wrapper design by Donald Green.

For further book scraps, please follow on Twitter.

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