Read about another novel on the list.Our Man In Havana, by Graham Greene
Having suffered the heat in many sweltering climes (such as Vietnam and Mexico), Greene developed a knack for describing its pleasures and perils. Our Man follows a hapless Havana vacuum salesman—a British expat and MI-6’s best man (due to a very limited pool) to keep an eye on anything developing in Cuba—as he negotiates the largely exaggerated world of espionage and Havana’s dusty, sweaty heat.
Our Man in Havana also made Pico Iyer's list of four essential novels by Graham Greene and Alan Furst's five best list of spy books; it is one of Stella Rimington's six favorite secret agent novels.
--Marshal Zeringue
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