{"product_id":"our-man-in-havana-paperback","title":"Our Man in Havana - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGraham Greene\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eChristopher Hitchens\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMI6's 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 Lamb's \u003ci\u003eTales from Shakespeare\u003c\/i\u003e and dreams up military installations from vacuum-cleaner designs. Then his stories start coming disturbingly true... \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFirst published in 1959 against the backdrop of the Cold War, Our Man in Havana remains one of Graham Greene's most widely read novels. It is an espionage thriller, a penetrating character study, and a political satire of government intelligence that still resonates today. \u003cb\u003eThis Penguin Classics edition features an introduction by Christopher Hitchens. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eGraham Greene (1904-1991), whose long life nearly spanned the length of the twentieth century, was one of its greatest novelists. Educated at Berkhamsted School and Balliol College, Oxford, he started his career as a sub-editor of the \u003cb\u003eLondon\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eTimes\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e. \u003c\/i\u003eHe began to attract notice as a novelist with his fourth book, \u003cb\u003eOrient Express\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003ein 1932. In 1935, he trekked across northern Liberia, his first experience in Africa, told in \u003cb\u003eA Journey Without Maps\u003c\/b\u003e (1936). He converted to Catholicism in 1926, an edifying decision, and reported on religious persecution in Mexico in 1938 in \u003cb\u003eThe Lawless Roads\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003ewhich served as a background for his famous \u003cb\u003eThe Power and the Glory\u003c\/b\u003e, one of several \"Catholic\" novels (\u003cb\u003eBrighton\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eRock\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Heart of the Matter\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe End of the Affair\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e). \u003c\/i\u003eDuring the war he worked for the British secret service in Sierra Leone; afterward, he began wide-ranging travels as a journalist, which were reflected in novels such as \u003cb\u003eThe Quiet American\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eOur Man in Havana\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Comedians\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eTravels with My Aunt\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Honorary Consul\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Human Factor\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eMonsignor Quixote\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003cb\u003eThe Captain and the Enemy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e. \u003c\/i\u003eAs well as his many novels, Graham Greene wrote several collections of short stories, four travel books, six plays, two books of autobiography, \u003cb\u003eA Sort of Life\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eWays of Escape\u003c\/b\u003e, two biographies, and four books for children. He also contributed hundreds of essays and film and book reviews to \u003cb\u003eThe Spectator\u003c\/b\u003e and other journals, many of which appear in the late collection \u003cb\u003eReflections\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e. \u003c\/i\u003eMost of his novels have been filmed, including \u003cb\u003eThe Third Man\u003c\/b\u003e, which the author first wrote as a film treatment. Graham Greene was named Companion of Honour and received the Order of Merit among numerous other awards.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChristopher Hitchens\u003c\/b\u003e is a widely published polemicist and frequent radio and TV commentator. He is the author of many books, including \u003cb\u003eWhy Orwell Matters\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eLetters to a Young Contrarian\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eThe Trial of Henry Kissinger\u003c\/b\u003e, as well as books on Cyprus, Kurdistan and Palestine, including \u003cb\u003eBlaming the Victims\u003c\/b\u003e coedited with Edward Said. He is a contributing editor to \u003cb\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/b\u003e and writes for, among others, \u003cb\u003eSlate\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eThe Atlantic Monthly\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/b\u003e, and \u003cb\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/b\u003e. 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