![]() However, Hawthorne keeps quiet for fear of losing his job. In London, nobody except Hawthorne, the only one to know that Wormold sells vacuum cleaners, doubts this report. ![]() Hasselbacher, about his spy work, hiding the truth from Milly.Īt one point, he decides to make his reports "exciting" by sending to London sketches of what he describes as a secret military installation in the mountains, actually vacuum cleaner parts scaled to a large size. Wormold tells only his friend and World War I veteran, Dr. Some of the names in his network are those of real people (most of whom he has never met), but some are made up. ![]() Because he has no information to send to London, Wormold fabricates his reports using information found in newspapers and invents a fictitious network of agents. Since Wormold does not make enough money to pay for Milly's extravagances, he accepts the offer of a side job in espionage. ![]() Wormold's wife had left him and now, he lives with his beautiful 17-year-old daughter, Milly, who is devoutly Catholic, but also materialistic and manipulative. James Wormold, a vacuum cleaner retailer, is approached by Hawthorne, who tries to recruit him for the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). ![]() The novel, a black comedy, is set in Havana during the Fulgencio Batista regime. ![]()
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