The Night Manager

Either we make you rich or we make you dead. On a bleak January night at the outbreak of the Gulf War, Mr. Richard Onslow Roper, a very special visitor, arrives with his entourage at a Zurich hotel. The night manager, Jonathan Pine, recognizes him immediately—and prays that the identification is not mutual. Welcome to the new era of espionage, where the habits and rules forged in the darkest days of the Cold War are applied to an even more harrowing end. This is Roper's world—a world of illegal arms dealers and drug smugglers, men whose ruthlessness is matched only by their hunger for unlimited wealth. Enter Leonard Burr, former British intelligence officer turned international policeman. Burr recruits Pine to his cause, and launches him on an undercover odyssey that takes him from Zurich to the desolate coast of Cornwall, and eventually to a village in Quebec where he obtains the identity that will be his tickets of entry to Roper's island hideaway in the Bahamas. In what is perhaps John le Carr?'s greatest work to day, The Night Manager brings to life a whole new era of intrigue, brilliantly conceived by the undisputed master of the genre. More Tags : Penguin Classics Version : 5.0

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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mr. Le Carre Has Succeeded Again. His Characters, Men And Women, Are As Rich As Any He Has Created, The Locales Are Equally Colorful And The Story Demands Telling. He Has Put Human Faces On Some Of The Worst Troubles All Over The World Today. . . In The Night Manager, The Author Leaves Us With The Possibility Of Change. After Such A Rough But Remarkably Readable Journey Through The Arms And Drug Culture, Mr. Le Carre Deserves Credit For Keeping The Flames Of Romance And Idealism Glowing. -- New York Times

Jonathan is the orphan son of a hero soldier and a veteran of secret operations in South Armagh. Disenchanted by the army and his marriage, he works for the Palace Hotel, Zurich. There he meets Richard Roper, an illegal arms trader. He must bring Roper to book