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It is an espionage thriller, a penetrating character study, and a political satire of government intelligence that still resonates today. First published in 1959 against the backdrop of the Cold War, Our Man in Havana remains one of Graham Greene's most widely read novels. Then his stories start coming disturbingly true.
To keep his job, he files bogus reports based on Charles Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare and dreams up military installations from vacuum-cleaner designs. Urn:oclc:797184953 Republisher_date 20121022000905 Republisher_operator Scandate 20121020124607 Scanner Synopsis MI6's man in Havana is Wormold, a former vacuum-cleaner salesman turned reluctant secret agent out of economic necessity. OL8259012W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 93.42 Pages 230 Ppi 650 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0140130284 Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 21:09:05 Bookplateleaf 0002 Boxid IA161301 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Date-raw NovemExternal-identifier
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