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Our Man in Havana

By: Graham Greene
Narrated by: Jeremy Northam
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Brought to you by Penguin.

Discover Graham Greene’s blackly comic and timely espionage thriller, set amid the vice and squalor of pre-revolutionary Havana.

'Graham Greene had wit and grace and character and story and a transcendent universal compassion that places him for all time in the ranks of world literature' John Le Carré

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.

©1970 Graham Greene (P)2020 Penguin Audio Classics Espionage Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Spies & Politics Thriller & Suspense Funny Witty Cuba Fiction Suspense

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A bit of a farce, funny and very unusual. A story about spies in Cuba and vacuum cleaner salesmen.

Very unusual.

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A lovely book and great narration almost completely spoiled by awful music between the chapters.

Awful music

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Loved the book and the very good narration but why oh why have these musical intermissions between chapters.
If you don’t mind that a clever and occasionally funny story by a great author.

Why the musical intermissions

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I've listened to this several times. It's audiobook perfection! Great story in which Greene pokes fun at the secret service mandarins (hilariously fooled by vacuum cleaner diagrams!), with chapters marked by appropriate lively music, and Jeremy Northam expertly adopting a fine variety of accents.

Greenland treat

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Graham Greene, Eric Ambler, John le Carre are my favourite authors in this genre. Our man in Havana is one of the shorter audio books out there in the spy thriller series.

This particular recording is ruined by the cheap and cheesy music played to transition between chapters or interludes. It destroys the books credibility and should almost certainly be edited to remove the music. It simply doesn’t suit.

Just Ok - ruined by cheap music

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Graham Greene doing what he does best. intrigue, comedy and great storytelling. Great vo narrative to

For The Graham Greene Fan

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A well narrated story but it is spoiled a little by the unnecessary and repetitive music

One of my favourite Greens novels

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Brace yourself for the relentless trashing of Greene’s would-be meticulously controlled build-up of witty atmosphere in this otherwise superb reading by Jeremy Northam. Presumably partly to compensate for the many minutes of narration that a gremlin must have wiped from the master tape – actually first marketed in 2009 – you will be blasted at random and frequent intervals with jaunty elevator muzak. Or perhaps this is the audio producers’ idea of how to keep the slow-witted entertained – present company excluded, of course. Excruciating.

Muzak mauling and missing bits.

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This is my first Graham Greene. Really enjoyed it and keen to explore more of his books. Didn’t really like the jingles between chapters.

Good fun

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Loved this classic Graham Greene spy novel of a bungling British amateur outwitting everyone around him but why have all that irritating jaunty music? It is completely unnecessary and destroys the rhythm. I can’t fault the narrator who was pitch perfect.

Classic Graham Greene

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