An English couple, Perry and Gail, are taking an off-peak holiday on the Caribbean island of Antigua. By seeming chance they bump into a Russian millionaire called Dima who owns a peninsula and a diamond-encrusted gold watch. He also has a tattoo on his right thumb, and wants a game of tennis.
What else he wants propels the young lovers on a tortuous journey through Paris to a safe house in the Swiss Alps, to the murkiest cloisters of the City of London and its unholy alliance with Britain's Intelligence Establishment.
John le Carre was born in 1931 and attended the universities of Bern and Oxford. He taught at Eton and served briefly in British Intelligence during the Cold War. For more than fifty years he has lived by his pen. He divides his time between London and Cornwall.
Title: Our Kind of Traitor
Author: Carré, John le
ISBN: 9780241975015
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Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Publication Date: 2016-04-21
Number of Pages: 400
Weight: 0.3403 kg
A story with frenzy at its heart . . . A compelling tale of deceit, dialogue and the author's own despair -- James Naughtie
[A] bullet train of a thriller . . . part vintage John le Carre and part Alfred Hitchcock * The New York Times *
If you want to know about the state of Britain today, forget the Booker shortlist. Just read John le Carre's latest thriller * Evening Standard *
Return of the master . . . Having plumbed the devious depths of the Cold War, le Carre has done it again for our nasty new age * The Times *
Few literary novels can boast a set of characters so vividly imagined. A teasing, beguiling, masterly performance * Sunday Times *
A remarkable book by the master * Daily Telegraph *
Pitch perfect. Le Carre's greatest gift may be his ear, which allows him to pick up a tremor of fear in the softest voice or a false note in any exchange of words and play with them to his heart's content * Sunday Telegraph *
One of our great writers of moral ambiguity, a tireless explorer of that darkly contradictory no-man's land * Los Angeles Times *
I would suggest immortality for John le Carre, who I believe one of the most intelligent and entertaining writers working today * Chicago Tribune *