Unfortunately, he has no useful information, so, desperate for money, he makes up intelligence based on newspaper reports, which the British fall for. Her extravagances are driving him to bankruptcy, so, when an MI6 agent, Hawthorne, approaches him with an offer of spy work, he accepts and receives the code name 59200/5. James Wormold is a British vacuum cleaner salesman in Cuba, who can’t say no to his beautiful but wilful daughter, Milly. To view them, just select/highlight them. Major spoilers are blacked out like this secret. (For more on loglines see The Killogator Logline Formula) Our Man in Havana: Plot Summary When they decide to eliminate him, he invents a convoluted plot to save himself and his daughter. In 1950’s Cuba, a vacuum cleaner salesman, needing money to fund his daughter’s extravagant lifestyle, sells fake intelligence to MI6, drawing Soviet attention. (For more on titles, see How to Choose a Title For Your Novel) Our Man in Havana: Logline The title uses a classic title archetype, the Protagonist, being a reference to Wormold, who MI6 think is ‘their man in Havana’. Our Man in Havana, written by Graham Greene and published in 1958, is one of the funniest and best spy novels ever written.
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