The Night Manager: A Novel

Le Carre delivers. If you like his stuff. You will like this one. A move from Cold War settings but similar themes. Ambiguous good vs horrendous evil. Highly recommended.

I loved the tv verson, but reading the book helped clarify some things. But the book is more complicated than the tv series. The tv version is much easier to follow (that is not to say it isn't completely clear at times. I think the tv series is one of the best stories I've seen on tv. Shout out to director Susan Bier! And,of course, John Le Carre.

Me and husband learned about this story through a movie. We watched it and we happen to like it so I decided to get a book too since me and my husband love to read books at night. The night manager is a story about about a former Soldier who is employed as a night manager in a Cairo Hotel. He get involved with a woman whose boyfriend is helping a rich man sell illegal firearms. she is killed because he gives the information to a friend to report to the British authorities and it is leaked and so she is killed. He then feels so guilty that he becomes part of a team that is trying to catch the rich guy.He infiltrates the inner circle of the weapons dealer and then helps to capture him. It really is good story and the writer did a great job. The actor portraying the character is great too. You will never see any emotion on his face. He stays calm in every situation even if his insides are in turmoil already. He doesn’t give away things making him very effective inside man. Even though we got a used book, the book is still in a good and very acceptable condition. There are no missing pages, no marks of folded pages and no highlights of texts. It is neat, clean and absolutely legible.It is still in one piece and very much intact.

I've read most of le Carre, and this one isn't really top-notch. He wastes too much time on Jonathan's back story in Quebec, the setting -- arms sales to central America -- feels dated, and there's some embarrassing business with characters speaking in Caribbean dialect.It's a rare case where the limited series is actually better than the book; there are better-developed female characters (always a le Carre weakness), and the relocation to the Middle East just works better. But they share a plot weakness that you have to overcome; would the very canny Dicky Roper really not see through the way that Pine "coincidentally" shows back up in his life?Still, it's le Carre, so it's more engaging and better written than a lot of what's out there, but for him, it's a weaker entry.

Great book. I read this in anticipation of the British television production and thoroughly enjoyed the book. I was glad I'd read read it when the tv series came out as it added to my understanding quite a bit. The stories are not exactly the same and there are aspects of the book I like better than the tv series. I found that there were a lot of characters and I occasionally had trouble keeping the more minor characters straight. It was worth a second reading and I found it even more enjoyable the second time around. Great spy story. Loved the various faces of Jonathan Pine.

Not the best, but well worth the read

Typical Le Carre. Extremely well researched and written. I do have one criticism though and one observation. The criticism: I thought the language was excessively strong - simply too much.. The observation: In terms of the two main female characters, he does a great job of developing them through the observations and thoughts of the male characters, but when it comes to developing the women through their own words and thoughts, the development tends to come off melo-dramatic and unrealistic. But with that said, Le Carre is consistently head and shoulders over the rest of the thriller genre in terms of writing ability and realism. Really, there is no one like him.

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, it’s 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.

I watched the series and decided to read the book and I love it. Brilliantly written, the characters believable and elegantly drawn. Love this book.

This is Carre’s post spy book that focuses on international drug and arms deals. Well written and informative.

Quintessential Le Carrè, complex plot, incredibly detailed narrative, intricate, fat-paced language that holds the reader’s attention throughout.The ending is a bit abrupt. One puts the book down with the hope of a sequel. But great thriller all the same.

If you are interested in; intrigue, exotic locales, spies, international gun-running, the corruption of the intelligence community (and governments), then this book is for you. It is extremely well written and hard to put down. The only negative - some of the British expressions are unknown to me and I had to guess at their meaning. Highly recommended, as is the mini-series which was also extremely well done.

Contaba con alguna pequeña marquita en portada pero el interior esta perfecto. He empezado a leerlo ya y es una novela muy interesante hasta donde he llegado.