Why a Booktrail?
1990s: Travel the dark and dangerous world of spies and more with The Night Manager
The Night Manager
What you need to know before your trail
An unholy alliance operates between the intelligence community and the secret arms trade between Whitehall and Washington. This is a dark world of danger, chaos and worse. A desert of a post-cold war world.
Jonathan Pine is caught up in this web of intrigue. He is the night manager, orphan son of a soldier hero, too-young veteran of clandestine operations in the bandit country of South Armagh and now a part time hotelier. He’s caught up in a complex web of corruption, political intrigue, international arms dealings and a whole lot more.
Locations
Reset- England
- B: Cornwall/Devon - Pine's Home
- Morroco
- C: The Night Manager's hotel
- Switzerland
- D: Matterhorn mountain
Travel Guide
The Night Manager is on a mission which takes him from the cliffs of west Cornwall, via northern Quebec and the Caribbean, to the jungles of post-Noriega Panama. Noriega had been somewhat of an ally and a CIA asset the author says but soon became imprisoned by them.
The novel is set at a significant time in world history and when the Colombia drugs trade was at its height. John le Carre mentions in the author foreword that these were the days of Pablo Escobar and when the DEA in America was starting to find that a great deal of money was found to have traces of drugs on it – especially that coming from Bogota.
The world of international arms dealers comes to life and with drugs, violence and corruption this is a dark post Cold war world indeed.
TV locations
There are many locations on the TV version which for obvious reasons are set elsewhere and in the booktrail above, we’ve set out the ones you might want to see for yourself. From the house in Devon/Cornwall to the palatial home in Spain to the jungle of South America. The most luxurious place you can stay is in the hotel of the Night Manager himself. In the book it’s Cairo but on the television version it’s Morocco. Madrid and Monaco were translated as Palma, Mallorca’s capital, where you’ll find fine food, chic shops and pavement cafés perfect for people-watching.
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