Shows why Le Carre was a master of the form! Time to enjoy everything he has left us. Thank you John

I read this book after watching the TV mini series. I was intrigued by the characters of Roper, Jonathan, Corky, and Jed based on the movie. I wasn't let down by the book except maybe for Corky. Corky is just as mean-hearted in the book, but he doesn't evolve the same way and frankly, I liked the TV series Corky better.

I did like the other three characters. Roper is Evil Personified. Jonathan is a complicated man and sometimes I wondered if he was really mentally ill along with being brilliant as espionage! Jed is a bit more simplistic in the book than in the TV series, and she has a different backstory, but she is still a great adjacent character.

I was glad that the female British Intelligence character of the movie was gone and replaced with Burr. He just seemed more real to me than a pregnant agent hell bent on saving the world because of the atrocities she'd witnessed. Burr looks at Roper with a broader view.

The story is complicated! Americans and Englishmen in charge of keeping the world safe from the Ropers of the world are actually in cahoots with them. The Good Guy gets trapped at times and you wonder how he'll make it out alive! Great storytelling.

The book's settings are very different from the movie, but I enjoyed that, too.

It was at times difficult to switch from British English to American English while reading. Part of me loved trying to figure out what the hell the English were really telling one another and learning to get around all the cute names that the English call each other. It was an interesting lesson in writing styles. However, after I finished the book, I was eager to read something that was light and direct. Still, I do want to read another of the author's novels.

LeCarre writes like an Impressionist paints. Vivid,but misty pictures conveying wonder and emotion. Complicated plots viewed from various sources. A picture of a dangerous life.

I'm a big fan of the author but missed this when it was first published, so I'm coming to it from having seen the series twice. The series presents the story in a linear fashion, starting in Cairo before moving to Switzerland while the book starts in Switzerland and has flashbacks. Too many of them for my taste as a reader and editor. The writing is what I expect from Le Carré: witty, elegant, sometimes lush, probing. But the character of the night manager is far more appealing on screen than he is in the book, which was a wise move on the part of the screenwriters. He comes across as something of a creep early on and it's hard to shake the distaste. And as with The Tailor of Panama or other richly- imagined books by this author, the style is not for everyone. Many thriller readers would likely prefer something more stripped down like books by Alan Furst, but I'm only half-enjoying it so far. It was a wise move to revise the storyline for the series and cast the appealing Tom Hiddleston as the lead.

Me and husband learned about this story through a movie. We watched it and we happen to like it so I decided to get a book too since me and my husband love to read books at night. The night manager is a story about about a former Soldier who is employed as a night manager in a Cairo Hotel. He get involved with a woman whose boyfriend is helping a rich man sell illegal firearms. she is killed because he gives the information to a friend to report to the British authorities and it is leaked and so she is killed. He then feels so guilty that he becomes part of a team that is trying to catch the rich guy.He infiltrates the inner circle of the weapons dealer and then helps to capture him. It really is good story and the writer did a great job. The actor portraying the character is great too. You will never see any emotion on his face. He stays calm in every situation even if his insides are in turmoil already. He doesn’t give away things making him very effective inside man. Even though we got a used book, the book is still in a good and very acceptable condition. There are no missing pages, no marks of folded pages and no highlights of texts. It is neat, clean and absolutely legible.It is still in one piece and very much intact.

Super hotelier and volunteer spy Pine survives undercover with the world’s most dangerous man and steals his lady. Their lives are traded for letting arms and drugs go. So it’s a political romance. The Netflix version is more satisfying

The Night Manager describes the murky trade in deadly arms, and the equally murky corridors of government agencies that aid and abet it if this so happens to advance The National Interest. The novel is populated by colourful characters, and has a pace that will leave the reader at times breathless, and at other times admiring the effortless prose and delightful turns of phrase so typical of Le Carre.

Although Smiley catapulted him the fame, and I still re-read them regularly, it’s the non-dagger novels like The Honourable Schoolboy and The Night Manager where his writing is so rich, so full of flawed but loveable human characters, and the plots and sub-plots and viewpoints duck and weave and bob like corks in a torrent creek. Above all, Le Carre remains hugely entertaining.

Read the book after having already watched the TV series. Different enough to warrant the long read, and with LeCarre doing the writing what’s not to love anyway?

Good print and paper quality — the pages are thick and pleasant to read. However, the soft cover bent almost immediately, which was a bit disappointing.

This is my first time reading this author, so I’m still getting used to the writing style. English is my second language, and even with a high level I still come across some new words.

I have to admit this novel was challenging. it took me took attempts to get into it. It is a great read, of that there is no doubt, but it's a complex story and you need patience and to pay attention. The recent TV series I saw later and for me it's a great product borne from the book. The story as usual with the Le Carre books suits a TV serialisation and the TV adaptation was very good I thought, including a different but for me probably better ending than the book and that's hopefully not a spoiler as both endings are great. The ending in the book seemed to leave it open for a sequel that never came, sadly I should say. The TV series brought closure I think.

A typical Carré

John Le Carre is one of those writers who is in a league of their own. As I read this I marvel at how well written and observed it is.

Many people will have watched the TV adaptation with Tom Hiddleston and Hugh Laurie by now, but the book gives you so much more - more detail, more plot, more character, more background, more everything. It’s set in the early 1990s (unlike the TV adaptation) and is all the richer for it.

It’s not a fast-paced read, but then it doesn’t present post cold-war espionage as a fast-paced world, but rather one where you bide your time, are clever and get to know those around you, and that’s exactly the journey this book takes you on.

Pine is a fantastic protagonist. Morally ambiguous but incredibly likeable.

A great gateway into a large collection of great espionage novels if you like Le Carre’s style.

Masterpiece!