Our Man in Havana

A comic spy novel set in Cuba before the revolution. Wormold, a modest English vacuum cleaner salesman in Havana, is recruited by British intelligence. Short of money and wishing to provide for his daughter, he begins inventing agents and secret reports. His fictions are then taken seriously, and events grow stranger and more dangerous than he intended. Greene gently mocks the intelligence world and its self-importance while keeping a human warmth at the centre.