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MI6U+2019s man in Havana is Wormold, a former vacuum-cleaner salesman turned reluctant secret agent out of economic necessity. To keep his job, he files bogus reports based on Charles LambU+2019s Tales from Shakespeare and dreams up military installations from vacuum-cleaner designs. Then his stories start coming disturbingly trueU+2026 First published in 1959 against the backdrop of the Cold War, Our Man in Havana remains one of Graham GreeneU+2019s most widely read novels. It is an espionage thriller, a penetrating character study, and a political satire of government intelligence that still resonates today.