John le Carré: The Night Manager (UK 2024)

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To catch a criminal, he must become one
Jonathan Pine, night manager of a luxury Swiss hotel, has a secret. He knows that the guest he awaits, billionaire trader Richard Roper, is 'the worst man in the world.' And he knows why. Pine will do whatever it takes to help the Intelligence services bring Roper down - even if it means going deep undercover into a ruthless, lawless world, up against forces more dangerous than he can imagine.

John le Carré: The Night Manager. Penguin Classics, ISBN: 9780241685051 (June, 2024), 553 p., £9.99.

John le Carré: The Night Manager (UK 2020)

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In The Night Manager, an ex-soldier helps British Intelligence penetrate the secret world of ruthless arms dealers.
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 - backfires terribly, and people close to Pine begin to die, he commits himself to a battle against powerful forces he cannot begin to imagine.

In a chilling tale of corrupt intelligence agencies, billion-dollar price tags and the truth of the brutal arms trade, John le Carré creates a claustrophobic world in which no one can be trusted.

John le Carré: The Night Manager. Penguin Classics, ISBN: 9780241337219 (July, 2020), 592 p., £14.99.

John le Carré: The Night Manager (USA 2016)

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John le Carré, the legendary author of sophisticated spy thrillers, is at the top of his game in this classic novel of a world in chaos. With the Cold War over, a new era of espionage has begun. In the power vacuum left by the Soviet Union, arms dealers and drug smugglers have risen to immense influence and wealth. The sinister master of them all is Richard Onslow Roper, the charming, ruthless Englishman whose operation seems untouchable. Slipping into this maze of peril is Jonathan Pine, a former British soldier who's currently the night manager of a posh hotel in Zurich. Having learned to hate and fear Roper more than any man on earth, Pine is willing to do whatever it takes to help the agents at Whitehall bring him down -- and personal vengeance is only part of the reason why.

John le Carré: The Night Manager. Ballantine Books, ISBN: 9780399594007 (March, 2016), 468 p., $9.99.

John le Carré: The Night Manager (UK 2016)

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A special edition of le Carré's first post-Cold War novel, to tie in with the new major BBC series starring Hugh Laurie and Tom Hiddleston, with a new afterword by the author

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 - backfires terribly, and people close to Pine begin to die, he commits himself to a battle against powerful forces he cannot begin to imagine.

In a chilling tale of corrupt intelligence agencies, billion-dollar price tags and the truth of the brutal arms trade, John le Carré creates a claustrophobic world in which no one can be trusted.

John le Carré: The Night Manager. Media tie-in edition. Penguin Classics, ISBN: 9780241247525 (February, 2016), 496 p., £8.99.

John le Carré: The Night Manager (UK 2013)

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In The Night Manager, John le Carré's first post-Cold War novel, an ex-soldier helps British Intelligence penetrate the secret world of ruthless arms dealers.

'Le Carré is the equal of any novelist now writing in English' Guardian
'A marvellously observed relentless tale' Observer

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 - backfires terribly, and people close to Pine begin to die, he commits himself to a battle against powerful forces he cannot begin to imagine.

In a chilling tale of corrupt intelligence agencies, billion-dollar price tags and the truth of the brutal arms trade, John le Carré creates a claustrophobic world in which no one can be trusted.

John le Carré: The Night Manager. Penguin Modern Classics, ISBN: 9780141393018 (November, 2013), 472 p., £7.99 (?).

John le Carré: The Night Manager (UK 2006)

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In the shadowy recesses of Whitehall and Washington an unholy alliance operates between the intelligence community and the secret arms trade.

Jonathan Pine is taking refuge from his demons 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 Panama, Pine chases his quarry -- the worst man in the world.

John le Carré: The Night Manager. Sceptre, ISBN: 0340937688 (September, 2006), 624 p., £8.99.

John le Carré: The Night Manager (UK 2001)

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The night manager is Jonathan, orphan son of a soldier hero, too-young veteran of clandestine operations in the bandit country of South Armagh. In flight from a failed marriage and his own past, Jonathan has taken refuge in the luxury hotel trade, but finds no escape from his demons. Driven partly by a desire for atonement and partly 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. THE NIGHT MANAGER is a story of majestic reach, funny, sad, captivating and constantly thrilling; a tale of wickedness and courage, love and greed, of one man's search for himself in a world going to the devil - and of two women, one murdered and one living, who mysteriously direct his journey...

John le Carré: The Night Manager. Hodder & Stoughton, ISBN: 0340733691 (August, 2001), 624 p., £17.99.

John le Carré: The Night Manager (UK 2000)

From the Publisher:
The night manager is Jonathan, orphan son of a soldier hero, too-young veteran of clandestine operations in the bandit country of South Armagh. In flight from a failed marriage and his own past, Jonathan has taken refuge in the luxury hotel trade, but finds no escape from his demons. Driven partly by a desire for atonement and partly 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. THE NIGHT MANAGER is a story of majestic reach, funny, sad, captivating and constantly thrilling; a tale of wickedness and courage, love and greed, of one man's search for himself in a world going to the devil - and of two women, one murdered and one living, who mysteriously direct his journey...

John le Carré: The Night Manager. Sceptre, ISBN: 0340766522 (January, 2000), 624 p., £6.99.

John le Carré: The Night Manager (USA 1994)

From the Publisher:
Enter the new world of post Cold War espionage. 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. Slipping into this maze of peril is a former British soldier, Jonathan Pine, who knows Roper well enough to hate him more than any man on earth. Now Personal vengeance is only part of why Pine is willing to help the men at Whitehall try to bring Roper down....

John le Carré: The Night Manager. Ballantine Books, ISBN: 0345385764 (June, 1994), 474 p., $7.99.

John le Carré: The Night Manager (UK 1994)

From the Publisher:
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.

John le Carré: The Night Manager. Coronet, ISBN: 0340597658 (May, 1994), 718 p., £5.99.

John le Carré: The Night Manager (UK 1993)

From the Publisher:
The night manager is Jonathan, orphan son of a soldier hero,too-young veteran of clandestine operations in the bandit country of South Armagh. In flight from a failed marriage and his own past, Jonathan has taken refuge in the luxury hotel trade, but finds no escape from his demons.

Driven partly by a desire for atonement and partly by 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 to the cliffs of West Cornwall, to the mining belt of Quebec province, to the decadent splendour of the Bahamas and the Caribbean and the jungles of post-Noriega Panama: but most fatefully to the jungles of secret Whitehall and Washington, where the unholy alliance between the intelligence community and the secret arms trade has its heart of darkness.

In The Night Manager Le Carré has given us his best novel to date: a story of majestic reach, funny, sad, captivating and constantly thrilling; of wickedness and courage, love and greed, of one man's search for himself in a world going to the devil - and of the two women, one murdered and one living, who mysteriously direct his journey.

John Le Carre was born in 1931. After attending the universities of Bern and Oxford he taught at Eton and spent five years in the British Foreign Service. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, his third book, secured him a wide reputation which was consolidated by the acclaim for his George Smiley trilogy, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Honourable Schoolboy and Smiley's People. His most recent titles include A Perfect Spy, The Russia House and The Secret Pilgrim.

John le Carré: The Night Manager. Hodder & Stoughton, ISBN: 0340592818 (May, 1993), 443 p., £14.99 (?).