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[email protected] © The Night Manager Distribution Ltd. CONTENTS LETTER FROM JOHN LE CARRÉ 3 SYNOPSIS 5 CHARACTERS 6 INTERVIEW: SUSANNE BIER, 24 EXECUTIVE PRODUCER/DIRECTOR EPISODES 26 CAST LIST 27 CAST BIOGRAPHIES 28 PRODUCTION BIOGRAPHIES 29 PRODUCTION CREDITS 31 LETTER BY It’s been one of the unexpected miracles of my writing to Panama City and the forested mountains of the life: a novel I had written more than twenty years ago, Darien. buried deep in the archive of a major movie company The purpose of these seemingly disconnected that had bought the rights but never got around to wanderings had been to frustrate the sale of a huge making the movie, suddenly spirited back to life and consignment of state-of-the-art weaponry to nervous re-told for our times. And how! drug barons of Central America. Their supplier? Mr. In the novel, my chief British spook had been a man Richard Roper, my villain. named Burr – a rough-cut, ponderous, no nonsense But by 2015 the war on drugs had run and run, endless fellow, but a man for all that, and a throwback to my movies had portrayed it, and the hot market for illegal own distant days in the secret world when female JOHN arms had in the meantime moved to the bloodlands of officers were, to say the very least, a rarity. the Middle East, to Syria, Libya and above all Egypt, But did we really want this in 2015: one white male where democracy even now is being shot down every middle-aged man pitched against another white time it lifts its head.