![]() ![]() Critic and fellow one-time secret agent, Malcolm Muggeridge called Our Man in Havana, “the most brilliant book on intelligence that’s ever been written because it gets inside the whole fantasy… the way people get caught up” (Sherry III:106). It “suddenly struck him that in that city, ‘where every vice was permissible and every trade possible,” the novel would find its ideal home. ![]() Originally intended as a story about spies working within the German Secret Service, the idea was shelved until Graham Greene later visited Havana. Octavo, original blue cloth, original dust jacket.įirst edition of Greene’s subtly ironic novel set in 1950s Cuba, English actor Anthony Steel’s copy, with his ownership signature. “HE THOUGHT: I MUST DO SOMETHING, GIVE THEM SOME NAMES TO TRACE, RECRUIT AN AGENT, KEEP THEM HAPPY”: FIRST EDITION OF GREENE’S OUR MAN IN HAVANA ![]()
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