How plausible is John le Carré’s The Night Manager?

The Sunday night adaptation of Le Carré’s arms-trading spy thriller is a TV sensation – but how far does it blur the lines between fact and fiction?

Ever since the collapse of the Soviet Union, John le Carré has been looking for targets beyond the murky, mutual, spying of the cold war. He has directed his genuine and growing anger at more topical, straightforward, targets: a large pharmaceutical company (The Constant Gardener), extraordinary rendition (A Most Wanted Man), and Foreign Office/MI6 involvement in the work of private US military contractors (A Delicate Truth).

Related: The Night Manager recap: episode five – 'nothing quite as pretty as napalm at night'

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