Our Man In Havana
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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.
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The story of a reluctant spy who, finding himself out of his depth and a long way from oversight, plays on everyone's desire for secrets. Initially for his own advantage (or, rather, his daughter's advantage), he comes a to realise that his lies have consequences for those around him.
This is a brisk, satirical tale that nicely captures the seedy nature of Cold War competitiveness, each group trying to keep one-step ahead of the others, and all failing miserably. The characters are sympathetically drawn; none being definitively evil; all at the mercy of The Great Game.
