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The Night Manager by John le Carré. As its name suggests, the novel follows the night manager at a luxury hotel named Jonathan Pine. When the billionaire arms dealer Richard Roper, described by a former mistress as the “worst man in the world”, arrives at the hotel with his entourage, Pine is drawn into a world of brutality, shady dealings and corruption on an international scale. The danger he is facing only grows as he attempts to bring Roper to the authorities and gradually grows closer to his beautiful mistress Jed, placing both their lives in danger. John le Carré is an internationally renowned writer of spy novels. His best-known works include
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold,
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and
The Constant Gardener.
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JOHN LE CARRÉ
ENGLISH NOVELIST
Born in Dorset (England) in 1931.Notable works:The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963), novelTinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1974), novelThe Constant Gardener (2001), novelJohn le Carré, born in Dorset, England in 1931 as David Cornwell, is an internationally renowned writer of espionage novels and short stories. After studying at the University of Oxford and enjoying a brief teaching career, le Carré was employed by the British Foreign Service in West Berlin, where he learnt many of the informed details about espionage and international relations that are found throughout his works. While working for MI5 and MI6, le Carré began writing, and launched a career as a novelist spanning over 50 years and dozens of books with his first work, Call for the Dead (1961). His first successful novel was The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963), which was an internationally acclaimed bestseller. His espionage novels are often set during the Cold War and feature British intelligence agents in a more bureaucratic and realistic light, compared with the traditional glamorisation of spies in popular fiction. Many of his books and stories have been successfully adapted for the cinema and television, and he is now one of the most well-respected and celebrated English novelists of the postwar period.
THE NIGHT MANAGER
AN UNDERCOVER MISSION
Genre: novelReference edition: Le Carré, J. (2013) The Night Manager. London: Penguin.1stedition: 1993Themes: espionage, arms dealing, Britain, identity, drugs, grief, warLe Carré wrote The Night Manager following the end of the Cold War and the fall of the Iron Curtain in the late 1980s. It is his first novel to move fully away from the Cold War, and instead details an undercover sting operation and its attempts to bring down an international drugs smuggler. The novel reflects the new and expansive nature of post-Cold War geopolitical tensions and events, taking place at the same time as the Gulf War (1990-91) and exploring in-depth the deep-rooted disillusionment with the morality of powerful Western governments and their various foreign policies. The novel is one of le Carré’s most highly rated, received a critically and commercially favourable response, and was recently made into a successful television adaptation starring Tom Hiddleston and Hugh Laurie.
