Oberon Modern Plays: Our Man in Havana (Paperback)

from Marse

An enjoyable, though dated (early 50s), story of a British vacumn cleaner salesman in Havana, who is enlisted by British Intelligence to report on the goings-on of various people he may be in contact with. Needing money to keep his 17 y.o. daughter in style, he takes the money and makes up variou...

from Smiler69

I could spend an hour trying to describe what the book is about, but I don't have the energy and would rather spend some of that time reading besides; so I'm basing myself on a portion of the wikipedia's summary, which I found very good (relatively spoiler-free). This black comedy is set in Havan...

from jcbrunner

Greene's classic spy comedy offers an entertaining comment on the farcial business of foreign intelligence and spycraft. So much information is publicly available that it surpasses clandestine information in quantity and quality. Secrecy does not improve information quality. It makes it vulnerabl...

from Dorritt

Graham Greene obviously had fun writing this wonderfully satiric send-up of the espionage business. I smiled through most of the book, and often laughed aloud ... and yet the story never veers so far into farce that the reader is able to entirely forget the very real events in Russia and Cuba tha...

from TheAmpersand

Graham Greene seemed to enjoy setting traps for his characters. I don't suppose that that's too uncommon among thriller writers, but Greene was also a good enough writer to make his characters into real, likable people rather than mere plot-driven puppets. "Our Man in Havana" is, by any measure, ...