Later, Wormold acquires a secretary called Beatrice, who seems somehow to be involved in the spying, or at least knows of it she is a pleasant woman whom he gets on well with. There is a vaguely frightening sort of villainous character called Captain Segura, who has something or other made of human skin he is interested in Wormold’s daughter, Milly.Ĭaptain Segura and Wormold play draughts with one another. Wormold has a friend called Dr Hasselbacher, who seems innocuous. Later one of them, a pilot called Raul, is killed in an accident, and this seems to be a fact, so that is a bit strange, if the man didn’t really exist. It seems like Wormold is some sort of secret agent and he sends regular reports to somebody/somewhere or other about his sub-agents.Īt one point it seems as though these sub-agents are fictitious, but I don’t really know whether they are or not. I found the book somewhat boring at first, and would only have given it three stars, but it improved towards the end. I find some of Greene’s books hard to fully comprehend, and this is one of them. This book is about a British subject named Wormold living in Havana he makes his living selling vacuum cleaners, his wife is dead and he has a daughter called Milly.
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