Well, this was a quick read. But to be honest, I couldn´t put this book down. It was so good and it made me laugh in several places.

And to my fellow Germans here on Booklikes, who have read the book: Have you wondered as well, if Loriot´s vacuum cleaner salesman is a spy in disguise?

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From now on he will be a spy in my mind, forever and always.

Book: Read a book set in Africa or the Caribbean, by an African, Caribbean, or African-American author, with a green, red, or black cover, or with crops of the earth or a native African animal on the cover (Lion, giraffe, cheetah, etc.).

"Fiendish, isn´t it?" the Chief said. "The ingenuity, the simplicity, the devilish imagination of the thing." He removed his black monocle and his baby-blue eye caught the light and made it jig on the wall over the radiator. "See this one here six times the height of a man. Like a gigantic spray. And this - what does this remind you of?"

Hawthorne said unhappily. "A two-way nozzle."

"What´s a two-way nozzle?"

"You sometimes find them with a vacuum cleaner."

"Vacuum cleaner again. Hawthorne, I believe we may be on to something so big that the H-Bomb will become a conventional weapon."

Oh gosh, this chapter made me laugh so hard and this doesn´t happen very often to me while reading a book. I´m really loving this story so far. 

Page 67 - Vintage paperback edition

After having read "A Spy Among Friends", I´ve really been in the mood for some spy fiction. And since Graham Greene knew the major players of the Philby affair in real life, I thought it would be a good place to start with one of his books.

So I asked BrokenTune for advice and she told me that "Our Man in Havana" would be a good place to start. Plus, it fits one of the 24 tasks.

Book: Read a book set in Africa or the Caribbean, by an African, Caribbean, or African-American author, with a green, red, or black cover, or with crops of the earth or a native African animal on the cover (Lion, giraffe, cheetah, etc.).

I had no real expectations of this book - except that I shouldn't expect it to be anything like Murder on the Orient Express.

I've read the first two sections. It hasn't really grabbed my interest yet, but the format is interesting and it's keeping me interested enough to read on!