The Night Manager
by John le Carré · first published 1993
33% recommend17% neutral50% critical
Individual greed takes the place of old world rivalries of great nations. Inside look at the international cartel of illegal arms dealers, and drug smugglers. Lays forth an understanding of paradoxes in our unquestioning perceptions between evil and virtue! Heavy reading at best; smashing thoughts!
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I read my first of his, The Night Manager, almost by accident and was immediately struck with the precision of his thoughts and his ability to convey them. I had never touched anything in the spy genre, aside from the requisite odd Ian Fleming,…
on “John le Carré has died” ↗…that mostly because of the weaker final season and an accumulation of implausibilities roughly starting in the middle (more series have that than not, sigh). But, for the most part, flawless acting. The Night Manager is cool, too, with a very satisfying ending. The Little Drummer Girl is also good, though there is some... uncommon? psychological stuff going on in the book that creaks even more in the series.
on “Ian Fleming Explains How to Write a Thriller” ↗But the Night Manager novel really is a story about a stylish British tough-guy who seduces various beautiful women in different countries as he works his way towards the bad guys. The only reason you can read it without…
on “Which Is the Best John Le Carré Novel? (2014)” ↗…Although I found her a bit irritating. Then there is the rather 'forgettable' main woman char in the Constant Gardener. I liked most of Carre's works (although there are some stinkers in his canon - the Night Manager was I though a terrible book - but apart from Connie and Wife Anne I can barely remember any decent female characters at all.
on “John le Carré's crucial, covert collaborator” ↗…"*Chinatown* meets *Mad Max*) - *The Cadillac Desert* by Marc Reisser (nonfiction, part of a plot element in *The Water Knife* - *Cadillac Desert* PBS documentary[1] * Dark espionage thrillers: - *The Night Manager* by John LeCarre (novel, honestly not one of his best) - *The Night Manager* (TV miniseries--much better than the book!) - *The Ghost Writer* by Robert Harris (novel) - *The Ghost Writer* (movie)…
on “Ask HN: What is your favorite piece of entertainment of the last three years?” ↗…narrated audiobooks, and I've been meaning to get into one of le Carré's books for a while. I see he narrates the "John le Carré Value Collection" on Audible which has Tailor of Panama, Our Game, and Night Manager for a single credit. Is that what you're referring to? Along those lines, there is a great 2007 unabridged audiobook[0] of Frank Herbert's Dune that is read by Simon Vance for narration, but other characters…
on “LibriVox” ↗