The bureaucracies of our lives.
John Le Carré is known for his spy books. Personally, I wasn't very interested in this genre, until I heard that the BBC was adapting this book in a six episode series. I immediately grabbed it because I am the kind of person who likes to read the books before seeing the adaptations (and complain about how the movie/series doesn't caption the soul of the book.)
We follow a night manager, Jonathan Pine, who volunteers to spy on Roper, a very powerful man with dark deals that the police is incapable of catch because every single thing that he signs isn't his signature, but someone else's. Jonathan always encounters beautiful women; two of them have more emphasis: Sophie and Jed. They are both very different and very similar. Sophie is a wise woman while Jed has a sparkle that it is impossible to ignore.
The story is fervent with very intense moments when you think that there is no way out of it. It is never boring but it becomes frustrating when you see that politics and bureaucracies are what make this world so wild. The sarcasm and ironies makes you laugh but also reflect about the society that you live in - it made me remember José Saramago because he also wrote with sarcasm and irony - and the conclusion is that most of the time it is ridiculous.
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