OUR MAN IN HAVANA

By Graham Greene

Synopsis

Wormold is a vacuum cleaner salesman in a city of power cuts, 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. When his fake reports start coming true, Havana becomes a threatening place.

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Narrator	Jeffrey Segal
Length	8hrs 45mins
Catalogue No.	5434
Publisher	Vintage Classics; 2004

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