Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene

A palate cleanser after the poor book I just finished. I thought to myself who is the best writer, and in my opinion it has to be graham greene, so I picked one of his I’d not read before. It was of course superbly written. One of what he called his ‘entertainments’ like Travels with My Aunt, review: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ rather than one of his grim books (like The Quiet American, review: ⭐️⭐️⭐️). The story follows a slightly farcical vacuum cleaner salesman in havana who gets recruited by the british secret services, but he turns out to be less hapless than anticipated. Extremely made me want to drink daiquiris in 50’s cuba. It would be improved without the racial slurs, especially the n word in the first sentence, but apart from that a brilliant read.