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Our Man in Havana (Penguin Classics) Paperback – July 31, 2007

by Graham Greene (Author), Christopher Hitchens (Introduction)
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  • Series: Penguin Classics
  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin Classics; Reissue edition (July 31, 2007)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0142438006
  • ISBN-13: 978-0142438008
  • Product Dimensions: 5 x 0.5 x 7.7 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (77 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #17,708 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 starsGreat Entertainment
By Erez Davidi on September 29, 2013
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Wormold is a British national living in Havana who tries to make a living by selling vacuum cleaners. However, sales are not going so well and part of the blame can be attributed to the new model "Atomic Pile Suction Cleaner," which aroused negative connotations at the height of the Cold War. At that exact point of despair, Wormold is being recruited by a British secret agent in order to establish a network of agents, and hence have a firmer "intelligence" grip in the Caribbean. Wormold sees this opportunity as a way to enrich himself and provide for his beautiful daughter. Yet, he knows that in order to ask for more funds from the agencies he needs to recruit agents. What could be better and easier than inventing these agents? Who could possibly know? However, after an easy and successful start, fictional events are starting to become reality. From there, it all goes sour.

As Hitchens says in the introduction, Greene classified his books into two categories, novels and entertainment. "Our Man in Havana" naturally falls into the entertainment category, and very good entertainment, I must say. Greene's writing is witty and funny and the characters are loveable (Geoffrey Rush would be perfect for the role of Wormold). If you expect nothing more than witty writing and pure entertainment, you cannot go wrong here.
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5.0 out of 5 starsCuba on the eve of revolution
By T. Weed on August 31, 2015
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What if Cold War hysteria had reached such a pitch that spymasters would accept the most transparent fictions as truth? That’s the conceptual basis underlying this terrific novel, or “entertainment” as Greene called it, which manages to pull off the trick of being at once highly suspenseful and laugh-out-loud funny.

A British vacuum-cleaner salesman based in Havana on the eve of revolution takes advantage of the his country’s intelligence service’s hunger for information and makes up an entire spy ring to finance the demands of his precocious teenage daughter. Such is the premise of Our Man in Havana, in which Greene creates a wonderful cast of living characters: the fictionalizing spy himself, James Wormold, his beautiful and manipulative daughter Milly, his doomed German friend Hasselbacher, the evil Captain Segura—modeled on Fulgenico Batista’s actual right hand henchman, Captain Esteban Ventura Novo—and an assortment of comically bungling British spies and spy-masters.

Published in October of 1958, the book is astonishingly prescient in its portrayal of Havana on the eve of the Cuban Revolution, which was fated to descend from the Sierra Maestra mountains and expel Batista from power less than three months later, on New Year’s Day of 1959. But the qualities of this novel extend well beyond its status as an amusingly accurate snapshot of history. There are two additional aspects I found particularly striking. The first is how well Greene captures the physical cityscape of Havana, which I can attest, as someone who’s visited the city frequently since 1999, really hasn’t changed very much.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsHilarious. As one who was generally speaking in the ...
By Qesher on November 21, 2015
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Hilarious. As one who was generally speaking in the field covered by the subject matter, it rings close to home: you can't trust sources, sources have their own agendas, and sources will stab you in the back and manipulate you to no end. And then you keep cultivating the same sources, hoping that something will change. That, in the intel. business, as in any other endeavor of human life, is the definition of insanity.
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5.0 out of 5 starsOn fitting the “intelligence” to the political agenda…
By John P. Jones III TOP 1000 REVIEWERVINE VOICE on October 2, 2015
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I’ve read Greene’s The Quiet American (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) three times. He was amazingly prescient in depicting the complete inability of the CIA’s agent, Alden Pyle, to see the reality of Vietnam that was before him. Rather, Pyle chose to view everything through the prism of the Ivy League academic theories of Professor York Harding. My copy of “Our Man in Havana” came with an introduction by Christopher Hitchens. In the intro, Hitchens indicates much the same, including: “…Greene seemed to have an almost spooky prescience when it came to the suppurating political slums on the periphery of America’s Cold War Empire.” And, “… the mandarins of MI6 are eager to deceive themselves, and to be deceived, and they get no more than what they ask for.’

Cuba is again “topical,” as the United States has finally decided, after more than half a century, to “kiss and make-up” with the Communist government led by Raul Castro, brother of Fidel, who seized power from the dictator, Fulgencio Batista shortly after “Our Man in Havana” was first published. Greene knew a thing or two about the British intelligence services, since he once worked for them, recruited during the Second World War, by his sister, who worked for MI6. His initial posting was in Sierra Leone. His novel is a wonderful slap-stick farce… that, in all likelihood, accurately depicts the meaningless levels of intrigue, and the pre-disposition of the “intelligence” leadership to hear, as Simon and Garfunkel once famously sang: “A man hears what he wants to hear, and disregards all the rest.”

Jim Wormold is a failing British vacuum cleaner salesman, working in Havana.Read more ›
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4.0 out of 5 starsFour Stars

Light fare, but humorous and well written! Interesting Cuba time capsule to read today!

Published 11 days ago by Michele B
1.0 out of 5 starsOne Star

Didnt really like the book had to read it for my espionage class and completely hatted it

Published 13 days ago by estefania
4.0 out of 5 starsA classical spy book with a great sense of humor, really enjoyable!

A fun and delightful spy book in the unique Graham Greene style!
I decided to ready it before going to La Habana and staying at the hotel Sevilla

Published 1 month ago by Elena
1.0 out of 5 starsOne Star

I could not get into this book at all.

Published 1 month ago by F. A. Williams
5.0 out of 5 starsI enjoyed the movie more

A classic, along with Greene's Third Man and others..Actually, I enjoyed the movie more.

Published 2 months ago by Gene
3.0 out of 5 starsB reading

Definitely a "B" book. Not an "A". Parts are very funny if you act them out in your mind. Light reading, maybe while you are sitting out on the beach. Read more

Published 2 months ago by Barry S. Yorysh
4.0 out of 5 starsWeak on the passenger side

Overall, a fine job, but disappointing in its utter failure to report on headend traffic on the passenger side, especially the mail that was the mainstay of passenger as we... Read more

Published 4 months ago by Linda Smith
4.0 out of 5 starsNot James Bond, but not bad Mr. Greene.

Graham Greene. This book was required reading for my Spies and Hackers class. Apart from the main premise being completely unrealistic (IMO) it was still very interesting to read... Read more

Published 5 months ago by jack canon
4.0 out of 5 starsThe writing is great and quite entertaining and hilarious at times

Entertaining book. The ending seemed a bit contrived to please the audience. I prefer Greene's other novels with a more serious intent. Read more

Published 7 months ago by Amazon Customer
5.0 out of 5 starsA must read

Greene ranks among the best.

Published 7 months ago by Rene Atkinson

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