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/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=3150 Xenophon. Estate Management [Oeconomicus]. -380.

/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=42 Le Carré, John. The Night Manager. 1993.

John le Carré (pseudonym for David Moore Cornwell) solidified his literary and popular reputation with his Cold War novels in which the unlikely hero, the portly, donnish George Smiley, often struggled with the dehumanizing demands of this ideological conflict. As the Cold War receded, le Carré turned more to themes that intertwine global corruption with espionage conventions. Neophyte protagonists work with but often defy intelligence services for their own non-ideological, typically sentimental reasons. Bartholomew “Barley” Scott Blair, for example, a bookseller turned reluctant British agent, betrays his government controllers for love ( The Russia House , 1989). Harry Pendel, a mild-mannered husband and father, natural chameleon, and most unlikely spy finds himself drawn between his spouse, Louise, and his disfigured receptionist, Marta ( The Tailor of Panama , 1997). Justin Quayle, an obsequious Foreign Office diplomat, searches relentlessly for the assassin

/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=10394 Bentham, Jeremy. Pauper Management Improved. 1798.

/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=12169 Warner, Marina. Managing Monsters: Six Myths of our Time. 1994.

/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=31570 Montalbán, Manuel Vázquez. The Angst-ridden Executive [La soledad del mánager]. 1979.