Our Man in Havana, by Graham Greene

[teacher_jane1]

Havana in the 1950s: a city of filled with sex, drugs, and secret agents, some of whom don't even realize it. Wormold is a timid Englishman living out the Cold War in Havana, devoted to his excessively Catholic daughter and his failing vacuum cleaner shop. When he is unwillingly pressed into service by a top-secret British intelligence agency, Wormold files increasingly fantastic reports about subversive activity in Cuba, only to find that his own flights of fancy might be terrifyingly real. With his plucky secretary at his side, Wormold sets out to discover the truth about his own lies, and about the vast global war he's now crucially involved in.

[Stevefromtheblock]

Saw the movie but never read the book. I will have to check it out!

[teacher_jane1]

I didn't know there was a movie! I will have to check THAT out!

This was my first Graham Greene novel, and I'm eager to read more.

[Stevefromtheblock]

It's a old movie, made in the 50s I think, starring Alec Guinness.