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The Night Manager

By: John le Carré
Narrated by: Michael Jayston
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The night manager is Jonathan, a veteran of clandestine operations. In flight from a failed marriage and his own past, he has taken refuge in the luxury hotel trade. Yet he finds no escape from his demons. Driven by a desire for atonement and by an inherited patriotism, Jonathan allows himself to be recruited as a British secret agent with a mission to expose the murderer of the woman he himself betrayed. His odyssey takes him across Britain and Canada to the Caribbean and the jungles of Panama. But there are more treacherous jungles still in Whitehall and Washington.

©1993 David Cornwell (P)2014 Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd.
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a masterpiece, the arms trade monster

John le Carre always draws the reader into the story he is telling, I kept questioning my own perceptions of where the law should or shouldn't apply. Supply meeting demand, and the people who are willing to be facilitators, create the monster in our midst with our tacit tolerance. A powerful story!

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Best of the Le Carre books

Realistic. Tense and more tense. Great characters. Nuanced. Geopolitics at its worst. Better than the TV series which was also super good

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Lovely

I read books by John Le Carre before so I was quite ready for the slow pace. However this book still took me ages to finish. I think that this plot will work better as a tv show (which I'm yet to watch) but as a book it is a bit too contemplative and not engaging enough to keep you on the edge of the seat if you are expecting a James Bond type of spy novel. It is not. It never is with Le Carre as far as I can tell.

Even though I did enjoy listening to it, I expected an edgier and more twisted ending.

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Masterpiece

Extremely high quality writing, perfectly narrated. Le Carré's real world intelligence experience shines through in the realism of a slow and methodical build up to a meticulous operation... With backstabbing and subterfuge as ever present risks.

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