The Night Manager

The night manager is Jonathon, 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. Jonathon 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, Jonathon 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.