John le Carré
The Night Manager
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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 claustrophobi…
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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.'Le Carré is the equal of any novelist now writing in English' Guardian'A marvellously observed relentless tale' Observer 'Complex and intense ... page-turning tension' San Francisco Chronicle'When I was under house arrest I was helped by the books of John le Carré ... they were a journey into the wider world ... These were the journeys that made me feel that I was not really cut off from the rest of humankind' Aung San Suu Kyi'One of those writers who will be read a century from now' Robert Harris
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-241-33721-9
- EAN: 9780241337219
- Produktnummer: 32809875
- Verlag: Penguin Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 592 S.
- Masse: H20.0 cm x B13.0 cm x D5.0 cm 506 g
- Gewicht: 506
Über den Autor
John le Carré was born in 1931 and died in 2020. He attended the universities of Bern and Oxford, and taught at Eton before serving in British Intelligence during the Cold War. For more than fifty years he lived by his pen.
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