The Night Manager

A little difficult to follow the prose and took a very long time to realize that this was a story about an undercover recruit- even what agency (is it even a government one?) the main character is now working for.  Felt like way to much detail, side-story, and unnecessary background and backstory in the first 25%.  Not sure we even know the main plot, other than some revenge-driven man going after a really bad-man?  The whole who, what, when, where, why, how is a very slow, unengaging burn.  The entire read feels disjointed and the opposite of ‘readable' often going off track and into irrelevant content.  Ironic that about halfway through the author uses the phrase ‘scattershot method of talking', when scattershot is the abjective that is the only way I can think to describe how this writing actually reads.