Our Man In Havana

Description for OUR MAN IN HAVANA by Graham Greene: From the point of view of the British Secret Service Mr. Wormold, the hero of this novel, is 59200/5, one of their most important agents in the Caribbean network; but in the eyes of the reader, who knows better, Wormold is far less important as a secret agent and farm more important as a human being. A middle-aged Englishman, who makes a precarious living in Havana as the representative of a vacuum cleaner firm, he is more concerned with the future of his precocious teen-aged daughter, abandoned with him by a wife who ran away, than with the global strategies of the cold war. Wormold is recruited by the Secret Service before he fully realizes what it's all about, and his subsequent operations, ingenious ruses with real and sinister consequences, reveal him as an agent unlike any other. A rare fusion of comedy and suspense, OUR MAN IN HAVANA proves Graham Greene's reputation as a master entertainer.