The November Man is a 2014 American spy thriller based on the novel There Are No Spies by Bill Granger, which is canonically the seventh installment in The November Man novel series, published in 1987. It starsPierce Brosnan, Luke Bracey, and Olga Kurylenko with the screenplay written by Michael Finch and Karl Gajdusek. The film is directed by Roger Donaldson, who previously worked with Brosnan in Dante's Peak. Beau St. Clair once again teams up with Brosnan to co-produce the
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Five years later, Devereaux is retired in Lausanne, Switzerland, operating a lakeside cafe. His former boss, Jake Hanley (Bill Smitrovich), unexpectedly shows up and convinces him to extract a woman, Natalia Ulanova, the aide of a Russian presidential candidate and former Army General Arkady Fedorov. Hanley says Natalia requested Peter and only Peter's help in the extraction out of Russia.
Natalia breaks into Fedorov's safe and copies old photos depicting a disheveled young girl with a younger Fedorov. She escapes and contacts a full CIA extraction team, run by Mason, but in the rush fails to relock the safe. Fedorov alerts theFSB, who pursue Natalia through the streets of Moscow until Peter arrives and rescues her. Natalia, though surprised to see Peter, gives him a name, Mira Filipova, which Peter relays to Hanley.
The CIA team, co-ordinated by Hanley, is unaware of the new player who has rescued Natalia, nor that it is Peter, despite Hanley's presence, and CIA station chief, Perry Weinstein (Will Patton), gives the order to kill Natalia overruling Hanley's objections. Mason shoots Natalia from a rooftop with the same weapon from five years ago. Natalia hands Peter her phone containing the copied photos as she dies.
As the CIA team leave the multi-story car park, Peter kills the driver, and the occupants one by one until he faces Mason at gunpoint. Equally surprised by each other's presence, Mason and Devereaux walk away.
Weinstein debriefs Mason on why he did not shoot, and reveals Devereaux and Natalia were a couple. Langley targets Devereaux to be killed and Hanley forcibly detained for interrogation, kidnapped at his house.
Meanwhile, New York Times reporter Edgar Simpson tracks down refugee case worker Alice Fournier (Olga Kurylenko) and requests her assistance to write an exposé of Fedorov's alleged war crimes during the 2nd Chechen War. The assassin, Alexa, arrives in Belgrade, where a contact notifies her that Alice will meet Edgar in a restaurant.
Peter also arrives in Belgrade and heads to Hanleys house, and overpowers the two analysts combing through Hanley's hard drives. He discovers that Alice is Mira's only known contact and impersonates one of the dying analysts to get a location on Alice's phone.
He visits the cafe and rescues Alice from both Alexa and Mason's CIA team. Alice says that Mira pretended to be mute to Fedorov, who sexually abused her during the war. Mira actually spoke Russian and overheard Fedorov's conversations including the 'false flag' conspiracy to bomb a Russian Army building to initiate war and seizure of Chechen oil fields. A former Fedorov associate, Denisov, confirms the conspiracy and says the CIA actually bombed the building.
Weinstein goads Mason by revealing Devereaux recommended he be dropped from the agency due to his impulsivity. Devereaux and Alice have broken into the apartment across the street from Mason's residence to observe him. Mason dates his next door neighbor Sarah (Eliza Taylor), and they become intimate. Devereaux sends away Alice with cash and disposable cell phones ordering her to go where no one can find her. Devereaux breaks into Mason's apartment, holds Sarah hostage, and tests Mason's character by laying out a scenario where an agent is forced to choose between killing an enemy (Devereux) or saving a woman he loves who has had her femoral artery cut. Devereux cuts Sarah's leg and leaves. Mason chooses to save Sarah, instead of pursuing Peter.
Fedorov arrives in Belgrade for an energy conference. Alice meets Edger at his apartment where Alexa ambushes and kills Edgar, but the dying man catches her leg, allowing Alice to escape. Peter infiltrates the CIA site (a container yard) where Hanley is being held and confronts him about the CIA's involvement with Fedorov in Chechnya. Hanley claims Weinstein aided Fedorov and reveals that Alice Fournier is actually Mira Filipova. Mason also discovers the real Alice Fournier died years ago and Mira stole her identity.
Mira/Alice disguised as a prostitute, goes to Fedorov's hotel. We learn, through flashbacks her family was murdered in front of her by Federov and she was horribly abused. She calls Peter to inform him of her intention to confront Federov, and passes through the bodyguards who check her for weapons and make suggestive comments about the strong duct tape and condoms in her bag.
Approving of the gift of a prostitute Federov waits while Mira/Alice freshens up in the bathroom. Here she silently breaks a mirror and wraps the duct tape around a shard to form a crude knife. She surprises Federov but is unable to finally kill him. As he overpowers her, Peter ascends the stairs in the Hotel, cutting down the bodyguards and saving her. Instead of fleeing, Devereaux interrogates Federov demanding to know the name of the CIA operative involved in the False Flag operation - Federov, filmed by Mira's phone, admits it was Hanley. Surprised Devereaux shows a photo and even Mira confirms the bald Hanley was the CIA operative.
Mason arrives at the hotel but Peter and Mira escape after Peter knocks out Mason and leaves him Fedorov's recorded confession. However, when Mason and Celia present the evidence against Hanley, Langley has replaced Weinstein with Hanley.
Peter and Mira rest in a hotel where Mira thanks Peter for coming back to save her. As they prepare to leave, Devereaux calls his daughter - and Hanley answers the phone having kidnapped the daughter Lucy. Peter convinces Mira to go to a train station and wait for him. There, she goes to a public computer to write her story regarding Fedorov, crediting Edgar with the story.
Peter meets with Hanley and Mason, giving false information she will be waiting at a bus station. Mason is tasked to go and kill / collect Mira - but not before Peter is able to call his daughter on a CIA mobile for "proof of life".
Alexa tracks Mira's credit card to the station, but Mira hides then kills her with a workman's shovel.
After dispatching Mason, Hanley reveals he intends to blackmail Federov, after he becomes the Russian president, with his involvement in the false flag attacks, forcing Russia to join NATO. This would effectively eliminate competition to 'U.S.hegemony', uniting the western nations and the former Eastern Bloc to prepare for what Hanley believes, "the next up-coming war with the Middle-East".
However, Celia, Mason's CIA partner, traces the phone call to the kidnappers' location where Mason kills Hanley's men and rescues Lucy. Mason returns to Hanley, together they kill the rest of Hanley's men. After Hanley is subdued. Peter thanks Mason for saving Lucy and escapes with his daughter to the train station uniting with Mira who has transmitted her story to the New York Times.
Later, Mira testifies at the International Criminal Court about Fedorov's war crimes and the conspiracy, sabotaging Fedorov's campaign. He is later shot in the head by an unknown sniper while relaxing on his yacht.
CastPierce Brosnan as Peter H. Devereaux ("The November Man")
Luke Bracey as David Mason
Olga Kurylenko as Alice Fournier/Mira Filipova
Eliza Taylor as Sarah
Caterina Scorsone as Celia
Bill Smitrovich as John Hanley
Will Patton as Perry Weinstein
Amila Terzimehić as Alexa
Lazar Ristovski as Arkady Federov
Mediha Musliović as Natalia Ulanova
Akie Kotabe as Meyers
Patrick Kennedy as Edgar Simpson
Dragan Marinković as Semion Denisov
Ben Willens as Agent Jones
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