Our Man in Havana

I finally read this 1958 satirical espionage thriller so I could discuss it with Craig and Andrew on this episode of the Overdue podcast. I was stunned at some of the things I learned along the way, like Greene was dear friends with notorious double agent Kim Philby. In this Cold War tale, James Wormold is a bumbling vacuum cleaner salesman with a daughter who spends money faster than he can make it. So when a British Intelligence officer offers him a job as a British spy with an attractive paycheck, he feels he can't say no. But he doesn't know the first thing about espionage, so he simply pretends to be useful—and that's when things get strange.