Le Carre wrote The Night Manager as a standalone story and left the characters to find their own future.
I WAS sent the first episode by my London agent, telling me that Simon and Stephen Cornwell - novelist John
le Carre's sons - were seeing who might be interested in a television adaptation.
"I was a devoted admirer of
le Carre from a very young age and consumed all the Smiley novels and worried, as a lot of admirers of
le Carre also worried, I'm sure, that, at the end of the Cold War, not only would there be a lot of unemployed spies, there would also be a lot of unemployed spy writers.
An adaptation of The Night Manager by John
Le Carre is to be shown in a series of six screenings by television company the BBC this month, The Guardian news company revealed on Friday.
Penguin Random House UK, part of trade publisher Penguin Random House, revealed on Wednesday that John
le Carre will narrate the audiobook version of his new novel titled Agent Running in the Field.
I must admit I've never read a John
Le Carre novel, although I have seen lots of his work transferred to TV and film.
Naturally, the very fact that it's been adapted from another John
Le Carre novel automatically gives this 1970s-set cat-and-mouse thriller more than a fighting chance of it being as stylish and gripping as 2016's monster spy hit.
The Little Drummer Girl BBC1, 9pm The Night Manager - based on the best-selling spy novel by John
le Carre - was one of the biggest TV success stories of recent years.
BIRTHDAYS: John
Le Carre (David Cornwell), author, 87; Sir Michael Gambon, actor, 78; John Lithgow, actor, 73; Sam Allardyce, football manager and pundit, 64; Evander Holyfield, former boxer, 56; Sinitta, actress and singer, 50; Pras Michel, R&B singer/producer, 46.
thrillers failed to understand is that the true genius of
le Carre lies in treating Russian cabals and assassination plots and soviet recruitment tactics all as mere vehicles for a story about the person who must navigate themthat these great spy thrillers had a deeply psychological element.