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| Original Title: | The Night Manager |
| ISBN: | 0340937688 (ISBN13: 9780340937686) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Harry Palfrey, Richard Onslow Roper, Leonard Burr, Jonathan Pine |
| Literary Awards: | Deutscher Krimi Preis for 3. Platz International (1994) |
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In the shadowy recesses of Whitehall and Washington an unholy alliance operates between the intelligence community and the secret arms trade. Jonathan Pine is ready to stand up and be counted in the fight against this ultimate heart of darkness. His mission takes him from the cliffs of west Cornwall, via northern Quebec and the Caribbean, to the jungles of post-Noriega Panama. His quarry is the worst man in the world.Identify Appertaining To Books The Night Manager
| Title | : | The Night Manager |
| Author | : | John le Carré |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 597 pages |
| Published | : | September 21st 2006 by Sceptre (first published June 28th 1993) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Thriller. Spy Thriller. Espionage. Mystery. Crime |
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Ratings: 3.81 From 13917 Users | 1031 ReviewsNotice Appertaining To Books The Night Manager
The first 50 pages of this novel are some of the best material I've ever read. Le Carré goes Proust and crafts a terrifying confrontation by digging into the past and into his protagonist's psyche in order to make the moment larger than life. The result is absolutely stunning. Le Carré created in Jonathan Pine a protagonist complex and engaging like few others.When Pine first gets in contact with his handler Leonard Burr, The Night Manager goes into full spy novel and become labyrinthic andJonathan Pine is the night manager at a hotel in Cairo. A beautiful woman named Sophie, who is the mistress of an Arab playboy and would-be arms dealer named Freddie Hamid, asks him to photocopy some documents for her and then to keep the copy in the hotel safe. Pine reluctantly agrees to do so and speed-reads the documents as he does.The papers describe an arms deal that Hamid is attempting to orchestrate with a very wealthy and very bad man named Richard Roper. Pine is a patriotic Englishman
the deeper u go, the darker it gets ...... jonathan pine is the night manager of a top class hotel in switzerland. he attempts to pass on information to the british authorities about roper, an int. businessman with dubious dealings, but this backfires and people close to pine begin to die in an effort to find the true person within himself he signs up and finds himself in a fight against powerful forces he cannot begin to imagine drugs and gun dealing merge with corrupt intelligence agencies,
A slinky international thriller about post-Cold War geopolitics, crammed full of damaged antiheroes, corrupt politicians, worn-out spies, megarich drug-runners and frustratingly vulnerable women. It opens in Zurich and rapidly expands to take in detailed sketches of Quebec, the Bahamas, Miami, the Netherlands, Central America and Cornwall so that there is a kind of travelogue element to the action, not unlike the feeling in those early Bond movies where audiences partly just wanted to see
Jonathan Pine is the Night manager at a luxury hotel in Cairo. A conversation with a guest late one night opens his eyes to the dark underworld of the arms trade; this guest Sophie asks him to pass some documents to the Egyptian authorities, which he does, but he sends a copy onto a friend in MI6 too, even though she warned him that Roper has contact with the British security services. A short while later she is found murdered, and it dawns on Pine that he may be responsible for her death.Six
From BBC 01 Player:Attempting to help a well-connected guest, hotel night manager Jonathan Pine is drawn into the world of arms dealer Richard Roper.1/6: Hotel night manager Jonathan Pine receives a plea for help from a well-connected guest. His actions draw him into the world of Richard Roper, a businessman and arms dealer.2/6: On the Mediterranean island of Mallorca, Roper's life of luxury and calm is shattered. Six months earlier, Burr continues her recruitment of Pine, sending him to Devon
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