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The Night Manager by John Le Carré
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The Night Manager

by John Le Carré

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My first jaunt into espionage. Noteworthy features: remarkable vocabulary with a hint of Britian that takes some adjustment. Significant character development. At times a bit too much character development. The emphasis towards the end of the book shifted to the pencil pushers instead of the gun slingers, a bit drawn out. Over all a good read. I might try another le Carre before I reached for the night manager. ( )
  vincemccarrie | Oct 30, 2008 |
2769 The Night Manager A novel by John LeCarre (read 29 Jul 1995) It was 30 years since I read LeCarre's most famous book, The Spy Who Came In from the Cold, when I decided to read this book because two years earlier I heard George Will speak glowingly of it. I did not like it: it is full of gratuitous obscene words, the "hero" is immoral, it spends a lot of pointless time on "lavishness," and at times it is boring. It tells of Jonathan Pine, a hotelier who is recruited to help catch Dicky Roper, an arms seller and dope dealer. The story is quite improbable, and I missed 'real' heroics such as Tom Clancy throws out. I know of no reason to read more of LeCarre. [Though on July 23, 2007, I did read his Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy--which did not overwhelm me either.] ( )
  Schmerguls | Feb 29, 2008 |
The main character here is a retired soldier, working the night shift at a hotel. He meets a woman who has information about an arms dealer.

Because of this, he gets involved in a sting operation against the arms dealer, as he would like a bit of revenge after the woman is murdered because of the information she passed on.

A slightly different book, with a commentary on how all governments mostly ignore the arms trade as they make craploads of cash out of it.

http://notfreesf.blogspot.com/2007/03... ( )
  bluetyson | Mar 6, 2007 |
Special edition sold only in U.K. airports.
  leennnadine | Feb 25, 2007 |
Significant change of direction for Carre here. Our Game discribes the international drugs/arms scene and how government doesn't really want to do much about it, becasue of the profit they earn. How true to real life it is, is irrelevant because its a totally gripping read, with all of Carre's attention to detail and powerful characterisation. ( )
1 vote reading_fox | Jan 17, 2007 |
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On a snow-swept January evening of 1991, Jonathan Pine, the English night manager of the Hotel Meister Palace in Zurich, forsook his office behind the reception desk and, in the grip of feelings he had not known before, took up his position in the lobby as a prelude to extending his hotel's welcome to a distinguished late arrival.
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Enter the new world of espionage, where the skills forged by generations of spies during the darkest days of the Cold War are put to even more terrifying use. Penetrate the secret world of ruthless arms dealers and drug smugglers who have risen to unthinkable power and wealth. The sinister master of them all is an untouchable Englishman named Roper, the charming, unstoppable ruler of a corrupt world all his own.

Slipping into this maze of peril is a former British soldier, Jonathan Pine, who knows Roper well enough to hate him more than he hates any other man on earth. Now personal vengeance is only part of the reason Pine is willing to help the men at Whitehall bring Roper down.


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