Series ✦ Penny’s Take 🎧 Audiobook
Our Man in Havana
Graham Greene · 2024
🎙 Narrated by Matthew Lloyd Davies (Tantor Media, 2024)
76/100
👍 Worth It
Greene's satirical spy story about a vacuum salesman whose made-up intelligence reports spiral out of control is sharp, fast, and darkly funny, and AudioFile called Matthew Lloyd Davies's reading 'a thrilling listen.' There's an implied brothel/nightclub backdrop and some real violence in the plot, so it leans adult, but it's a well-crafted, compact classic.
✦ Penny’s Take — this is The Review Group’s own editorial assessment. Penny’s analytical review line researched this book from real sources and scored it across the lenses shown below. It’s an honest first-party read — not a page-by-page personal one. The gold ✓ Penny Tested mark is reserved for books Penny reads cover to cover herself.
⚠ Parent note — our reviewers flagged: Implied brothel/nightclub setting and a couple of violent deaths in the plot; non-graphic but adult in tone.. We still scored it 76; these are context for your family, not an automatic skip.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety65
Substance / usefulness78
Craft & writing82
Originality78
Evidence & accuracy75
Hype vs delivers78
Age-fit70
Human-eye read78
Penny’s verdict76
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