Our Man in Havana

In July 1941, Graham Greene became a spy. He was given the number 59200, the same number he later gave to Wormold, the vacuum cleaner salesman and spy in his 1958 satire Our Man In Havana. He was 36 years-old. Greene appears seven times in A Book of Ages.

Che Meets Fidel

On July 8, 1955, Che Guevara met Fidel Castro. Che was 27, Fidel 28. The two talked the entire night and by morning Che had decided to join the “26th of July Movement” which hoped to overthrow the Batista government of Cuba. At first Che planned to be the group’s medical officer, but he soon discovered that he had a gift for warfare. Che Guevara appears five times in A Book of Ages, Castro twice.