Author: Greene, Graham, Hitchens, Christopher
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Published on 1 March 2001 by Vintage Publishing (Vintage Classics) in the United Kingdom.
Paperback | 256 pages
198 x 131 x 17 | 184g
Discover Graham Greene’s blackly comic and timely espionage thriller, set amid the vice and squalor of pre-revolutionary Havana.
‘British Intelligence being sent up something rotten’ Daily Telegraph Wormold is a vacuum cleaner salesman in a city of power cuts. His adolescent daughter spends his money with a skill that amazes him, so when a mysterious Englishman offers him an extra income he's tempted. In return all he has to do is carry out a little espionage and file a few reports. But when his fake reports start coming true, things suddenly get more complicated and Havana becomes a threatening place.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS