![]() ![]() She provided Pine with incriminating documents, asking him to forward them to the Egyptian authorities. ![]() Sophie characterised Roper as "the worst man in the world". One night in Cairo, Pine met Sophie, a French-Arab woman, the mistress of the hotel owner, Freddie Hamid, who had ties to Roper. The novel is about Pine's preoccupation with undoing Roper's criminal enterprise, which began earlier, in Cairo, where Pine was working as the night manager at the luxurious Queen Nefertiti hotel. ![]() Roper is a billionaire criminal who traffics illegal arms and drugs. He is on duty when the "worst man in the world", Richard Onslow Roper, arrives with his entourage on a cold, blizzardy night. We first meet him in that capacity at the Hotel Meister Palace in Zurich. ![]() Pine has a complex character with a military background and schooling at the Duke of York's Royal Military School in Dover. Jonathan Pine, a former British soldier, is a night manager at a hotel. It is his first post- Cold War novel, detailing an undercover operation to bring down a major international arms dealer. The Night Manager is an espionage novel by British writer John le Carré, published in 1993. ![]()
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