No es muy habitual que los escritores reciban sin cierta reticencia los cambios que los guionistas realizan en sus novelas para llevarlas a la pantalla.
En este caso, John Le Carré se felicita de que esta actualización haya transformado algunos de sus personajes (el señor Burr se ha convertido en la señora Burr) y no solamente se muestra conforme con que podamos asistir a una apasionante historia sobre el comercio de armas, los servicios de inteligencia y los avatares de la política sino que aparece incluso en alguna escena.
La serie que acaba de estrenar la BBC1 tiene como protagonista a Hugh Laurie (el misántropo genio Dr House)como el villano al que describen como la peor persona del mundo y unas variadas localizaciones que van desde El Cairo a Suiza, el Caribe, Canadá, Cornualles,..
In the shadowy recesses of Whitehall and Washington an unholy alliance operates between the intelligence community and the secret arms trade.
Jonathan Pine is ready to stand up and be counted in the fight against this ultimate heart of darkness.
Jonathan Pine is ready to stand up and be counted in the fight against this ultimate heart of darkness.
His mission takes him from the cliffs of west Cornwall, via northern Quebec and the Caribbean, to the jungles of post-Noriega Panama. His quarry is the worst man in the world
Jonathan Pine is an ex-soldier, who fought in Iraq and now lives in retreat from life, and himself, as a hotel night manager.Fact title | Fact data |
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A self-exiled creature of the night, and perpetual escapee from emotional entanglement, Pine’s conscience is pricked when his act of disclosing documents confidentially entrusted to him by a hotel guest results in her death. What begins as a quest for atonement becomes a quest for his own soul, as he enters the inner sanctum of Richard Roper and navigates the shadowy recesses of his world.
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