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Our Man in Havana
- Narrated by: Jeremy Northam
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
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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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"Graham Greene had wit and grace and character and story and a transcendent universal compassion that places him for all time in the ranks of world literature." (John Le Carré)
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- Sententiae
- 08-05-21
Muzak mauling and missing bits.
Brace yourself for the relentless trashing of Greene’s would-be meticulously controlled build-up of witty atmosphere in this otherwise superb reading by Jeremy Northam. Presumably partly to compensate for the many minutes of narration that a gremlin must have wiped from the master tape – actually first marketed in 2009 – you will be blasted at random and frequent intervals with jaunty elevator muzak. Or perhaps this is the audio producers’ idea of how to keep the slow-witted entertained – present company excluded, of course. Excruciating.
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- Jason M. Webber
- 20-04-23
Good fun
This is my first Graham Greene. Really enjoyed it and keen to explore more of his books. Didn’t really like the jingles between chapters.
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- doubledee
- 11-01-24
Classic Graham Greene
Loved this classic Graham Greene spy novel of a bungling British amateur outwitting everyone around him but why have all that irritating jaunty music? It is completely unnecessary and destroys the rhythm. I can’t fault the narrator who was pitch perfect.
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- J. Hynes
- 27-11-23
For The Graham Greene Fan
Graham Greene doing what he does best. intrigue, comedy and great storytelling. Great vo narrative to
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- iFan
- 15-05-22
One of my favourite Greens novels
A well narrated story but it is spoiled a little by the unnecessary and repetitive music
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- Amazon Customer
- 11-09-21
Very unusual.
A bit of a farce, funny and very unusual. A story about spies in Cuba and vacuum cleaner salesmen.
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- colin barclay
- 06-12-20
Awful music
A lovely book and great narration almost completely spoiled by awful music between the chapters.
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- Stephenott
- 14-10-20
Why the musical intermissions
Loved the book and the very good narration but why oh why have these musical intermissions between chapters.
If you don’t mind that a clever and occasionally funny story by a great author.
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- K. Golding
- 21-01-22
Greenland treat
I've listened to this several times. It's audiobook perfection! Great story in which Greene pokes fun at the secret service mandarins (hilariously fooled by vacuum cleaner diagrams!), with chapters marked by appropriate lively music, and Jeremy Northam expertly adopting a fine variety of accents.
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- Mattbenni
- 31-07-21
Just Ok - ruined by cheap music
Graham Greene, Eric Ambler, John le Carre are my favourite authors in this genre. Our man in Havana is one of the shorter audio books out there in the spy thriller series.
This particular recording is ruined by the cheap and cheesy music played to transition between chapters or interludes. It destroys the books credibility and should almost certainly be edited to remove the music. It simply doesn’t suit.
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