The Night Manager - Penguin Modern Classics (Paperback)
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The Night Manager - Penguin Modern Classics (Paperback)

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Published: 07/11/2013
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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 Ltd
ISBN: 9780141393018
Number of pages: 480
Weight: 330 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 20 mm


MEDIA REVIEWS

A beautifully polished, utterly knowing, and palpitating book. - Time

A marvellously observed relentless tale. - Observer

One of those writers who will be read a century from now. - Robert Harris

Complex and intense ... page-turning tension. - San Francisco Chronicle

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 humankind - Aung San Suu Kyi

One of those writers who will be read a century from now - Robert Harris

He can communicate emotion, from sweating fear to despairing love, with terse and compassionate conviction - Sunday Times (on 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold')

Return of the master . . . Having plumbed the devious depths of the Cold War, le Carré has done it again for our nasty new age - The Times (on 'Our Kind of Traitor')

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“Read the book - watch the dramatisation”

John le Carré 'The Night Manager'

Some years ago I had the pleasure of designing the television adaptation of Mary Wesley's 'Jumping the Queue'. At the preview she commented to the producer... More

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“John Le Carré's Night Manager”

A fantastic, involving and elegant read. I am a big fan of Le Carré's novels, and this did not disappoint. I would argue that it isn't as satisfying a read as the Smiley storyline but, for a stand-alone... More

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“Furiously compelling”

One of John le Carre's best novels. He throws your head into a disturbing post-Cold War wonderland full of arms dealers, lies, cruelty and murder. Impossible to forget.

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