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Title: The Night Manager (Abridged)
Author: John le Carré
Narrator: John le Carré
Format: Abridged
Length: 3 hrs and 59 mins
Language: English
Release date: 10-01-15
Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Espionage
Publisher's Summary:
In the shadowy recesses of Whitehall and Washington, an unholy alliance operates between the intelligence community and the secret arms trade. Jonathan Pine is ready to stand up and be counted in the fight against this ultimate heart of darkness. His mission takes him from the cliffs of west Cornwall, via Northern Quebec and the Caribbean, to the jungles of post-Noriega Panama. His quarry is the worst man in the world.
Critic Reviews:
"A beautifully polished, utterly knowing and palpitating book." (Time)
Members Reviews:
Our real world, exoplored by a master
I have read reviews of Le Carre's post cold war novels that treat them as of a lower quality than his classics. I must disagree with that view. Le Carre's more recent works evoke the murky alliances of modern powers, whether state or private, with a deft touch. His tales paint compelling, relatable victims, villains, and heroes, navigating today's brutal world of big money, omnipresent surveillance, and bought and sold governments. The NIght Manager works both on the personal level as a story of fully drawn people struggling in difficult circumstances and in terms of the big picture where compromised institutions perpetuate their existence by supporting the very evils they were established to combat. An eloquent examination of our times.
Classic LeCarre
The Night Manager describes the murky trade in deadly arms, and the equally murky corridors of government agencies that aid and abet it if this so happens to advance The National Interest. The novel is populated by colourful characters, and has a pace that will leave the reader at times breathless, and at other times admiring the effortless prose and delightful turns of phrase so typical of Le Carre.
Although Smiley catapulted him the fame, and I still re-read them regularly, itâs the non-dagger novels like The Honourable Schoolboy and The Night Manager where his writing is so rich, so full of flawed but loveable human characters, and the plots and sub-plots and viewpoints duck and weave and bob like corks in a torrent creek. Above all, Le Carre remains hugely entertaining.
Top Notch
This book is so good that it's hard to find a flaw. Perhaps the ending was a bit ambiguous; how Pine got from the deck of the Iron Pasha
in terrible shape to his new life with Jed. I would have liked more detail there. And what happens to Roper? Other than that, the book
is a brilliant depiction of the arms trade in an era like today, with many interesting characters, and top notch writing. A master writing
with all his powers intact....John le Carre at his best!
The TV miniseries, which won't be broadcast for a ...
The TV miniseries, which won't be broadcast for a while but is available for purchase on iTunes, actually has a more satisfying ending. But LeCarre's writing is well paced and sometimes lyrical, and his characters are real people, especially the title character and his MI6 "handler". This is definitely worth a read if you missed it earlier.
A classic John le Carré thriller
A British-based tale of wheelers and dealers with the Night Manager transforming himself into various personas in his mission to destroy one man. John le Carré builds a puzzle of a mystery set on the international stage with sophisticated cast of characters, dialogue and complexities both good and bad..