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100			_aCarre, John Le
245			_aThe night manager
260			_bPenguin Books, _c2024 _aLondon :
300			_a553 p. ; _c20 cm.
365			_b450.00 _c₹ _d01
490			_aPenguin Classics.
520			_aThe night manager is Johnathan who, in his flight from a failed marriage, takes refuge in the luxury hotel trade. Yet, there is no escape from his demons. In part due to guilt and, in part, due to patriotism, he allows himself to be recruited to the British Secret Service. Wickedness, courage, love, greed and a world going to the devil are the woof and weave of this broad ranging tale. Jonathan Pine is taking refuge from his demands as a night manager in a luxury hotel, until the day he agrees to stand up and be counted in the fight against a heart of darkness, the unholy alliance between the intelligence community and the secret arms trade. From the cliffs of west Cornwall via the Caribbean to post-Noriega Panana, Pine chases his quarry - the worst man in the world. 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 Carre'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. AIn The Night ManagerGuardianSan Francisco ChronicleThe Times (on Our Kind of Traitor). At the start of it all, Jonathan Pine is merely the night manager at a luxury hotel. But when a single attempt to pass on information to the British authorities - about an international businessman at the hotel with suspicious dealings.
650			_aSuspense fiction
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