Our Man In Havana
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
In the sun-drenched, shadow-filled streets of pre-revolutionary Havana, a hapless vacuum cleaner salesman named James Wormold is recruited by the British Secret Service — and what follows is one of the most brilliantly comic and quietly devastating satires of the Cold War era. Unable to recruit real agents or uncover genuine intelligence, Wormold fabricates an entire spy network, submitting vacuum cleaner schematics as classified military blueprints — until the fiction takes on a terrifying life of its own. Graham Greene, a master of moral ambiguity and political irony, crafts a narrative that is simultaneously a razor-sharp parody of the espionage genre and a deeply human meditation on loyalty, deception, and the absurdity of geopolitical paranoia. First published in 1958, Our Man in Havana showcases Greene's signature gift for blending dark comedy with genuine menace, producing a work that influenced an entire generation of spy fiction. Readers who think they know where the joke ends will find, with a chill, that Greene always has the last laugh.
Author: Graham Greene
Format: Hardback
Published: 1970, William Heinemann & The Bodley Head
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
In the sun-drenched, shadow-filled streets of pre-revolutionary Havana, a hapless vacuum cleaner salesman named James Wormold is recruited by the British Secret Service — and what follows is one of the most brilliantly comic and quietly devastating satires of the Cold War era. Unable to recruit real agents or uncover genuine intelligence, Wormold fabricates an entire spy network, submitting vacuum cleaner schematics as classified military blueprints — until the fiction takes on a terrifying life of its own. Graham Greene, a master of moral ambiguity and political irony, crafts a narrative that is simultaneously a razor-sharp parody of the espionage genre and a deeply human meditation on loyalty, deception, and the absurdity of geopolitical paranoia. First published in 1958, Our Man in Havana showcases Greene's signature gift for blending dark comedy with genuine menace, producing a work that influenced an entire generation of spy fiction. Readers who think they know where the joke ends will find, with a chill, that Greene always has the last laugh.