John le Carré Value Collection

Tailor of Panama, Our Game, and Night Manager

By: John le Carré

Narrated by: John le Carré

Length: 16 hrs and 6 mins

Publisher's summary

This collection is sure to please avid LeCarre fans and new listeners alike.

Includes: Night Manager, Tailor of Panama, and Our Game.

Night Manager: Enter the new world of post-Cold War espionage. Penetrate the secret world of ruthless arms dealers and drug smugglers who have risen to unthinkable power and wealth. The sinister master of them all is an untouchable Englishman named Roper. Slipping into this maze of peril is a former British soldier, Jonathan Pine, who knows Roper well enough to hate him more than any man on Earth. Now personal vengeance is only part of why Pine is willing to help the men at Whitehall try to bring Roper down....

Our Game: With the Cold War fought and won, British spymaster Tim Cranmer accepts early retirement to rural England and a new life with his alluring young mistress, Emma. But when both Emma and Cranmer's star double agent and lifelong rival, Larry Pettifer, disappear, Cranmer is suddenly on the run, searching for his brilliant protégé, desperately eluding his former colleagues, in a frantic journey across Europe and into the lawless, battered landscapes of Moscow and southern Russia, to save whatever of his life he has left....

Tailor of Panama: Le Carre's Panama is a Casablanca without heroes, a hotbed of drugs, laundered money and corruption. It is also the country which on December 31, 1999, will gain full control of the Panama Canal. Seldom has the weight of politics descended so heavily on such a tiny and unprepared nation. And seldom has the hidden eye of the British Intelligence selected such an unlikely champion as Harry Pendel - a charmer, a dreamer, an evader, a fabulist, and presiding genius to the house of Pendel & Braithwaite Co. Limitada, Tailors to Royalty, formerly of London and presently of Panama City. Yet there is a logic to the spy's choice, for everybody who is anybody in Cental America passes through Pendel's doors. He dresses politicos and crooks and conmen. His fitting room hears more confidences than the priest's confessional. And when Harry Pendel doesn't hear things as such - well, he hears them anyway, by other means. In a thrilling, hilarious audiobook, le Carré once again effortlessly expands the borders of the spy story to bring us a magnificent entertainment straight out of the pages of tomorrow's history.

©2000 John le Carré (P)2000 Random House Audio

Narration/Audio made it too hard to listen

I am going to try reading the books rather than listening. Unfortunately, I am going to return this title because I am having to strain to understand what the narrator/author is saying.

you want to know what I think?

LeCarre is who he is.
love him or yawn stretch ' who'?

Well I do love most of his yarns and have done for decades.
for me to hear a favourite author read his own work is just bliss

So I love Tolkien talk elfish.

and
in this audio
My only grief is the story is abridged,

Very good narration by Author and solid stories

Solid and entertaining stories with great narration by yhe author. One has tonpay attention as flashbacks and bits of infortmation that change the plot can be missed.

Carre' reads Carre'

Generally I think it is a terrible mistake to let writers narrate their own books. Not so here. While I've gotten used to listening to Carre' through the voice of the late David Case (aka Fredrick Davidson) Carre's disenchantment with the powers of the Western World suits the cynical outlook of his characters. Carre' is as good a vocal actor as he is a writer of the cerebral thriller. Unlike the Smiley series, The Tailor of Panama is almost a comedy.

Great Stories Beautifully Rendered!

Would you listen to John le Carré Value Collection again? Why?

Nothing better than hearing the author read his own works especially in THIS CASE!!!!!

What was one of the most memorable moments of John le Carré Value Collection?

Too many memorable moments to single out one or two.

What does John le Carré bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

The insight LeCarre brings to his characters and situations...

very good

great books and nice to listen. .. .... ..... ..... ..... ........ . . ... .

Poor Arabella!

Excellent read with delightfully characters and stunning turns. Enjoy yourself at Badger’s Drift. It is fun

Hard to hear!

What did you like best about John le Carré Value Collection? What did you like least?

Mr. le Carre tends to drop his voice to a whisper and I could not hear him, no matter how high the volume in my iphone.

Would you be willing to try another book from John le Carré? Why or why not?

No. His story line is too complicated and if you can hear it or miss a detail, you won't know what's happening.

Written and narrated by a man at the top of both games. Fantastic!

John le Carrie demonstrates again and again that he is a man at the top of his game, whether that game is writing or narrating. With this offering you are getting three marvelous novels, each written in a distinctly different style. Sometimes authors narrate their work to great effect, at other times you want to say “Please leave the narration to the professionals.” In these three novels, le Carre gives the impression that he heard the voices of his characters speak in exactly the manner he narrates them, and therefore it was easy to give them each their exact sound. He carries the characters and the accents off beautifully. I cannot imagine another narrator for these audiobooks. As for his writing, I doubt you need me to tell you le Carre crafts the best spy thriller around. The author lays down set and setting in such a manner that you can feel the breezes of Panama, and see the sun glinting off the cutting shears in the tailor’s shop. My advice is pick up this bargain bundle. You won’t be disappointed.

The only complaint is labels

I may have missed it but there isn't labeling for the three separate titles. Knowing that John personally voices his work adds to the pleasant experience, I feel like a child being read a bedtime story their parents