Milly is flat.īeatrice Severn, secretary with the Secret Service assigned to Wormold. Milly, Seraphina Wormold, the 17-year-old teenage daughter, a devout Roman Catholic. When he is approached by the British Secret Service to join their ranks, Wormold’s life undergoes a change: he enters a world of lies and counter lies, where nothing is certain, especially since he added a great deal to the uncertainty with his fabricated stories.

Hasselbacher, a German, with whom he drinks his occasional daiquiri. Business is bad and with a teenage daughter with growing needs, Wormold certainly does not live the life of a king. James, Jim, Wormold, a salesman for Phastkleaners vacuum cleaners, is stationed in Havana, Cuba at the end of the 50s. Our Man in Havana is a reference to James (Jim) Wormold, recruited by the British Secret Service to act as their point man in Havana.

He manages to avoid assassination attempts, secure the so needed funds for his teenage daughter, is offered a job by a blushing organization and finds love.Īfter all the entire intelligence world very much resembles a game of draught: he who has the better bluff wins. Little does he know that his fabrications would put the intelligence world on edge and scare people and organizations to such an extent that they would start stacking up dead bodies. Wormold has a goal and he seizes the opportunity to serve both his goal and that of England’s Secret Service. Intelligence services need information to stay operational, scheming and plotting, using every bit of information to try to predict an ideological course or simply falsify data to save their best interest. Vacuum cleaner salesman James Wormold is the designated English spy. Great Britain thought it best to have a finger in the pie by establishing a Havana station to keep abreast of things. In the midst of the Cold War, Cuba becomes the scene of a heated battle between intelligence services while the Cuban government was busy fending off communist rebels operating from the mountains.

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