Graham Greene is one of those authors that I've always meant to read - and following along with BrokenTune's Greene-land Adventures project increased my desire to dip into his books. The Summer of Spies gave me a perfect opportunity to check out one of his "espionage" books. I wasn't expecting the...
Cuba in the 1950s was such a strategically important place that espionage bloomed there and in the satirical spy novel Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene the general desire for first-hand intelligence has strange offshoots. One day Jim Wormold, the agent of Phastkleaners vacuum cleaners in Havana,...
In a lot of ways this is a brilliant book--or at least brilliantly written, but this first book I've read by Graham Greene also left me feeling it would be my last--thus the less than five star rating since I can't honestly say this hit things out of the park for me. The book was published in 1958 a...
Oh, I do like a spy novel! And this is one with a twist - because it is a satire on the well known intelligent services and the methods they are willing to employ to obtain information. Set in Cuba at the time of the missile crisis, Greene tells the story of James Wormold, a vacuum cleaner salesma...
I have read only one other Graham Greene novel which covered a serious topic seriously. So I was surprised to find this book to be a comedic look at spying and spy organizations. However, after reading it, I'm curious to know if these types of shenanigans actually occur. Mr. Wormold, a seller of ...
A very entertaining novel about Cuba just before Castro's revolution. Wormold, a nobody expatriate, finds himself neck deep in spies and trouble when approached by the British government. A short novel, with plenty of sarcasm and satire, and worth it. A film adaptation was made as well. There's also...
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