#ReadThis #WhomYouKnow #TheNightManager #JohnleCarre #leCarre The Night Manager by JOHN LE CARRÉ Earns Whom You Know's Highest Recommendation @lecarre_news @PenguinBooks #LondonPeachy #EnglandPeachy
The ingredients of a perfect novel escape 99.999% of all novelists.
BUT NOT JOHN LE CARRE! Put on your smile of gracious welcome, and know in this case, it is sincere. (p. 9)
The Night Manager is a page-turner with brilliant characters, stunning scenes, and killer plot details that culminate into a work that is absolutely the envy of the written world, and coveted by any reader alive. Few writers alive today if any other than le Carre live up to the phrase "perfect novel" which we normally only use for F. Scott Fitzgerald; A Crystal as Big as the Ritz is kind of like a Diamond (p. 258). We are a lot of things but in our quest for excellence across all disciplines, we are most definitely a watcher. And thus, appreciate all these watcher qualities that le Carre hits on. We always do our bit when the bugle of excellence pipes up.
We read this many times.
We could not get enough.
It is worth losing sleep over, and we warn you if you read this at night, it's likely you won't go to bed. Except, you are going to bed with John le Carre!
We won't reinvent the wheel. Some are just better spoken. Some use the most stellar verbiage and by some we mean le Carre. Le Carre writes like Tricomi cuts hair and like the Met has art. Examples of why le Carre is superior:
"The wealthiest of the earth were bravely hugging the ground, with the one exception of Richard Onslow Roper, trader, of Nassau, the Bahamas." (p. 5)
"Outside the smoked-glass windows sat shoeless pelicans in the moonlight, each to his mooring-post along the wooden jetty, like feathery old bombing planes that might never bomb again. On the silver beach, white egrets peered forlornly at their reflections." (p. 244)
"Furs, well-grown men, a beautiful long-legged woman, diamonds and gold wristbands and castles of matching black luggage, were emerging like plundered booty from its plush interior." (p. 23)
No ordinary salesman but rather an enchanter, Richard O. Roper is Gatsby times ten. A gentleman but not a snob, he and his entourage will kill you, not literally as they are paper-based, but figuratively. We love Roper's passion and his total intolerance for a neutral gear. Engines going always in the pursuit of evil excellence! We adore Roper's word choice and his exquisite banter. We could listen to him forever. From Langley to River House, his opponents are mystified by his web of surreptitious escapades that can only be unwoven by the most sly among us: this is the tale that will light up your life. Who's selling whom down the river mes amies?!
This doesn't take place in New York but it's nice that Corky does plug the Carlyle. And, his insistence on lobster is total hilarity.
With deprival as his element, protagonist Jonathan (is that really quite his name?) attempts to unearth how the Wozza-Wozzas are armed...they do need a few toys. You know we love American-made! Peace through strength. We love how they meet their joes in Connecticut. Jonathan reacts: he does not pull tricks. Is he the best reader of a situation?! Delectable acts of venery, fascinating events of espionage, and an entirely new way of doing business await you. We refuse to give it away. Read it and earn the story for yourself! It's intoxicatingly blissful with platinum intensity.
It's Friday. It's the weekend. Time to get the party started and consider your immortal soul.
Spy on this masterful morsel, and read it. Break out the shampoo and toast to le Carre!
The Night Manager has earned Whom You Know's Highest Recommendation.
Stay tuned for more Night Manager...you know we also love AMC!
John le Carré 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 worldwide reputation. He divides his time between London and Cornwall.
Last year, John le Carré’s A LEGACY OF SPIES was a literary sensation, landing at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list and named one of the best books of 2017 by the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times, among others. A LEGACY OF SPIES was the first novel in over twenty-five years to feature George Smiley, le Carré’s most famous and beloved character, and, as Kirkus Reviews put it, “the miracle is that the author can revisit his best-known story and discover layer upon layer of fresh deception beneath it.” On May 1st, A LEGACY OF SPIES will be published in paperback by Penguin Books.
In A LEGACY OF SPIES, le Carré interweaves past with present so that each character may tell their own intense story, and has spun a single plot as ingenious and thrilling as the two predecessors on which it looks back: The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.
Peter Guillam, staunch colleague and disciple of George Smiley of the British Secret Service, otherwise known as the Circus, is living out his old age on the family farmstead on the south coast of Brittany when a letter from his old Service summons him to London. The reason? His Cold War past has come back to claim him. Intelligence operations that were once the toast of secret London, and involved such characters as Alec Leamas, Jim Prideaux, George Smiley and Peter Guillam himself, are to be scrutinized under disturbing criteria by a generation with no memory of the Cold War and no patience with its justifications. In a story resonating with tension, humor and moral ambivalence, le Carré and his narrator Peter Guillam present the reader with a legacy of unforgettable characters old and new.
For more than fifty years John le Carré has written novels that have come to define our age, from his extraordinary Cold War novels to his powerful depiction of the War on Terror in his novel, A Delicate Truth. He is one of only a handful of writers whose novels have been successfully adapted for the big and small screen and whose characters have been interpreted by the greatest actors of their time: in the 1960s by Richard Burton; in the 1970s by Alec Guinness; in 2005 by Ralph Fiennes; in 2014 by Philip Seymour Hoffman. In 2016, The Night Manager aired as a six-part series on AMC and became an award-winning critical hit. This fall, AMC will air the six-part TV adaptation of The Little Drummer Girl, directed by legendary filmmaker Park Chan-Wook in his television debut, which stars Alexander Skarsgård and Michael Shannon.
