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內容簡介 一位英國情報界裡表現優異的明日之星，因為婚姻的失敗以及殘酷無情的情報環境變化，使得他對現實人生失望灰心，於是毅然辭去情報工作，隱身一家飯店擔任夜班的經理。然而，往日的陰影、對情報工作的眷戀卻仍然深深糾結在他的內心。某日，飯店從英國來了一位貴賓，但此人的真實身分不僅是個國際軍火販子，更是造成時時啃蝕著夜班經理的惡夢的兇手。在愛國情操與復仇心的驅使下，夜班經理再度成為情報人員，潛入軍火商的陣營，展開一場敵明我暗的正邪之戰！昔日情報界的奇才、今日飯店裡的夜班經理，有著什麼樣糾纏未決的惡夢？而又有什麼樣險惡未明的未來在前方虎視眈眈？勒卡雷以自身真實的經驗，加上獨一無二的寫作天賦，細膩又深刻地描寫出隱身地下社會的神秘雙面間諜的故事。複雜的鬥智活動、兩難的道德處境、曖昧的善惡定義，內容富含哲理，情節引人入勝，閱卷愈罷不能，不愧為享譽全球的大師級作家！A special edition of le Carré's first post-Cold War novel, to tie in with the new major BBC series starring Hugh Laurie and Tom Hiddleston, with a new afterword by the authorAt the start of it all, Jonathan Pine is merely the night manager at a luxury hotel. But when a single attempt to pass on information to the British authorities - about an international businessman at the hotel with suspicious dealings - backfires terribly, and people close to Pine begin to die, he commits himself to a battle against powerful forces he cannot begin to imagine.In a chilling tale of corrupt intelligence agencies, billion-dollar price tags and the truth of the brutal arms trade, John le Carré creates a claustrophobic world in which no one can be trusted.
