5/18/2023 0 Comments Man in havana![]() * The novel was copyrighted in 1958 and published in 1959, thus the disparity in dates. Also, Jeremy Northam does a fine turn in the novel's audio version. The 1959 film version stars Alec Guiness, Burl Ives, and Maureen O'Hara.and Noel Coward as Hawthorne. ![]() But when his fake reports start coming true things suddenly get more complicated and Havana becomes a threatening place. ![]() In return all he has to do is file a few reports. 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. Wormold is a vacuum cleaner salesman in a city of power outages. ![]() Conceived as one of Graham Greene’s “entertainments,” it tells of MI6’s man in Havana, Wormold, a former vacuum-cleaner salesman turned reluctant secret agent out of economic necessity. Our Man in Havana is an espionage thriller, a penetrating character study, and a political satire that still resonates today. ![]()
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