Her Majesty’s man in Havana may have to resort to spying. Somehow, he’s become the target of an assassin, and it’s going to take more than a fib to get out of Cuba alive. Soon, he’s apparently deciphering incomprehensible codes, passing along sketches of secret weapons that look suspiciously like vacuum parts, and claiming to recruit fellow operatives from his country club, all to create the perfect picture of intrigue.īut when MI6 dispatches a secretary to oversee his endeavors, Wormold fears his carelessly fabricated world will come undone. To keep the checks coming, Wormold must at least pretend to know what he’s doing. James Wormold, a cash-strapped vacuum cleaner salesman in Havana, finds the answer to his prayers when British Intelligence offers him a lucrative job as an undercover agent. A hapless salesman in Cuba is recruited into Cold War spy games in Greene’s classic “comical, satirical, atmospherical” novel ( The Daily Telegraph).
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