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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Al comienzo, Jonathan Pine es simplemente el director nocturno de un lujoso hotel. Pero, cuando un intento de pasar información acerca de un hombre de negocios internacionales con tratos sospechosos alojado e n el establecimiento se vuelve en su contra de una manera terrible y empiezan a morir personas cercanas a Pine, él se compromete a luchar contra unas fuerzas tan poderosas que no podría ni imaginar. Las viejas rivalidades entre las grandes potencias han sido suplantadas por organizaciones criminales que se dedican al contrabando de armas y el tráfico de drogas cuyos voraces tentáculos llegan a todos los estamentos sociales y políticos. Narrada con la elegancia, el fino humor y la tenue melancolía de los grandes relatos, El infiltrado retrata un mundo donde las fronteras entre el bien y el mal se han difuminado y donde Jonathan Pine, su fascinante protagonista, se perfila como uno de los grandes personajes que la pluma de John Le Carré lega a la historia de la literatura y de los hombres.
Is "The Night Manager" up to the best of John le Carré? The equivocal answer has to be: yes, but only where it concerns the worlds of Roper and the London and Washington agencies. Their activities are handled with total assurance and an evident and infectious enjoyment. Elsewhere, however, Mr. le Carré sometimes surrenders to the inescapably sensational nature of the espionage thriller, and also to a romanticism about women that leads to the creation of a pipe-dream fantasy rather than a character in Jed, Roper's mistress. In his superb new novel […] he works familiar territory with the mastery of a brilliant conductor returning to a favorite symphony. […] Through every page, the almost-numb heart and mind of Le Carre's still- honorable protagonist give this novel a heartbreaking gravity. The Night Manager also obeys solid and readable conventions. […] But in seeking to move with the times, Le Carre has produced an adventure of the most old-fashioned and predictable sort. […] Hovering over this extravagant saga is a moralising, allegorical tendency that continues to drain the energy out of Le Carre's natural storytelling gift. Pertenece a las series editorialesContenido enTiene la adaptaciónPremiosDistinciones
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK * AMC Miniseries event April 19 Tues 10/9c John le Carré, the legendary author of sophisticated spy thrillers, is at the top of his game in this classic novel of a world in chaos. With the Cold War over, a new era of espionage has begun. In the power vacuum left by the Soviet Union, arms dealers and drug smugglers have risen to immense influence and wealth. The sinister master of them all is Richard Onslow Roper, the charming, ruthless Englishman whose operation seems untouchable. Slipping into this maze of peril is Jonathan Pine, a former British soldier who's currently the night manager of a posh hotel in Zurich. Having learned to hate and fear Roper more than any man on earth, Pine is willing to do whatever it takes to help the agents at Whitehall bring him down--and personal vengeance is only part of the reason why. Praise for The Night Manager "A splendidly exciting, finely told story . . . masterly in its conception."--The New York Times Book Review "Intrigue of the highest order."--Chicago Sun-Times "Richly detailed and rigorously researched . . . Le Carré's gift for building tension through character has never been better realized."--People "Grimly fascinating, often nerve-wracking, and impossible to put down."--Boston Herald No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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