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Is "Our Man in Havana" an espionage thriller, a satire, or what? I'd always assumed it was a thriller, mostly due my previous readings of Graham Greene's work, but I have to admit I'd say it's one of the better satires I've seen. I was grinning ear-to-ear throughout.
Wormold is an Englishman working as a relatively unsuccessful vacuum cleaner salesman in old Havana, pre-revolution, divorced and caring for a beautiful teenage daughter. He's approached by a desperate or just plain lazy MI6 recruit ...more
Wormold is an Englishman working as a relatively unsuccessful vacuum cleaner salesman in old Havana, pre-revolution, divorced and caring for a beautiful teenage daughter. He's approached by a desperate or just plain lazy MI6 recruit ...more
I quite liked this. It's refreshing to read a suspense novel that takes itself less seriously than many do, and though I didn't find Our Man in Havana as compelling as Le Carré at his best, the overt sexism that annoys me about Le Carré's writing of women is less obvious here, although the "wife who left" archetype is still omnipresent.
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