He was a compact man but tentative,with a smile of apologetic self-protection. Even his Englishness was a well-kept secret...
At the start of it all,Jonathan Pine is merely the night manager at a luxury hotel. But when a single attempt to pass on information to the British authorities - about an international businessman at the hotel with suspicious dealings - backfires terribly and people close to Pine begin to die,he commits himself to a battle against powerful forces he cannot begin to imagine.
In a chilling tale of corrupt intelligence agencies,billion-dollar price tags and the truth of the brutal arms trade,John le Carre creates a claustrophobic world in which no one can be trusted.
Published in 1993 but reissued by Penguin Classics to coincide with a major BBC television adaptation,The Night Manager,was John Le Carre's first post- Cold War novel.
'Le Carre is the equal of any novelist now writing in English.'-Guardian
'When I was under house arrest I was helped by the books of John le Carre...they were a journey into the wider world...These were the journeys that made me feel that I was not really cut off from the rest of humankind.'- Aung San Suu Kyi
'One of those writers who will be read a century from now.'- Robert Harris
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780141393018Number of pages: 480Weight: 333 gDimensions: 197 x 131 x 21 mm
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A beautifully polished,utterly knowing,and palpitating book.A marvellously observed relentless tale.One of those writers who will be read a century from now.Complex and intense...page-turning tension.When I was under house arrest I was helped by the books of John le Carré...they were a journey into the wider world...These were the journeys that made me feel that I was not really cut off from the rest of humankindOne of those writers who will be read a century from nowHe can communicate emotion,from sweating fear to despairing love,with terse and compassionate convictionReturn of the master...Having plumbed the devious depths of the Cold War,le Carré has done it again for our nasty new age
John le Carré
One of the greatest spy novelists of all time,John le Carré was born in 1931. His third novel,The Spy Who Came in from the Cold,secured him a worldwide reputation,which was consolidated by the acclaim for his trilogy Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Honourable Schoolboy and Smiley's People all featuring his most famous character,George Smiley,the quintessential Cold War operative. An antidote to Fleming's racier James Bond,Smiley is cool,thoughtful,somewhat academic and (superficially) "breathtakingly normal"with a somewhat ambivalent attitude to the Service and its efficacy. His other novels,thrillers which range widely covering variously political issues of the arms trade,modern conflict and drug-trafficking,include: A Most Wanted Man,Our Kind of Traitor,A Delicate Truth and the recently adapted The Night Manager. His only work of non-fiction,The Pigeon Tunnel,was a Number One bestseller in 2016.
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