The Night Manager
By John le Carré
 
First edition, first impression: London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1993. Signed and dated by the author to the title page in the year of publication.
 
Octavo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With the original dust jacket. Signed and dated by the author on the title page: "John le Carré June '93".
 
A fine copy, the binding square and firm with bright gilt. The boards are clean and the corners sharp. The contents are exceptionally fresh, free from spotting or previous owner inscriptions.
 
The dust jacket near fine, price-clipped, but otherwise in excellent condition. A very bright and sharp example.
 
The Night Manager represents a pivotal moment in John le Carré’s career, being his first novel written entirely after the conclusion of the Cold War. Having defined the espionage genre with the grey, bureaucratic world of George Smiley and "The Circus," le Carré turned his attention here to the "privateers" of the new world order—specifically the international arms trade. The story follows Jonathan Pine, a former soldier turned hotel night manager, who is recruited to infiltrate the inner circle of Richard Roper, described as "the worst man in the world" and reportedly inspired by the author's own father, Ronnie Cornwell, businessman and arms dealer.
 
The novel’s legacy was further bolstered by the 2016 BBC/AMC television adaptation. The series was a global critical and commercial success, winning multiple Emmy and Golden Globe awards, and it sparked a renewed interest in le Carré’s post-Cold War bibliography. The author himself made a brief cameo in the fourth episode.