A hapless vacuum-cleaner salesman in pre-revolutionary Havana is recruited by British intelligence and, to keep the checks coming, invents an entire network of fictitious agents and diagrams of secret weapons out of vacuum-cleaner parts — until his fabrications start coming true.
Books mentioned in Our Man in Havana (2)
Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb: “On the writing desk were two books identical copies of Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare.”
The Two Gentlemen of Verona by William Shakespeare: “They found Charles Lamb at last by Milly's bed; a leaf turned down showed that she was in the middle of Two Gentlemen of Verona.”