A real surprise. Laugh out loud funny, a gripping and prophetic story line and a heart-warming endorsement of the little man up against the big battalions. A vacuum cleaner salesman finds himself caught up in the absurd but dangerous world of international espionage and inadvertently triggers a lethal series of events. Greene had the knack of anticipating historic flash-points and here gets in on the Cuban missile crisis a year or two before it happened.
(Tony Pratt - bwl 64 Spring 2012 ) |
