Greene has written a number of novels of international intrigue since his service with British Secret Intelligence: The Ministry of Fear (1943), The Third Man (1950), The Comedians (1966) and The Honorary Consul (1973). In Our Man in Havana (1958), he returns to many of the same concerns of The Quiet American, but this time from more comic perspective, just as Monsignor Quixote (1982) is a comic rewriting of The Power and the Glory. Wormold, a British vacuum cleaner salesman living in Havana, allows himself to be recruited into British Intelligence, partially because he does not know how to say no, partially because he needs the extra.....
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