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Our Man In Havana

AuthorGraham Greene

NarratorJeremy Northam

Duration7h

CategoriesAdult Fiction, Humour and Comedy

Key StageA Level

PublisherCSA Word

VersionUnabridged

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Wormold, a vacuum cleaner salesman, was short of money. His daughter had reached an expensive age - so he accepted Hawthorne's offer of $300-plus a month and became Agent 59200/5, MI6's man in Havana. To keep the job, he pretends to recruit sub-agents and sends fake stories, which, to his horror, begin to come true...

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