Our Kind of Traitor
A remarkable book by the master. Reading it is a great experience . (Henning Mankell, Daily Telegraph ). 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. Chilling and astute...In Our Kind of Traitor , there is not a hair out of place...le Carre has done it again for our nasty new age . ( The Times ). A compelling tale of deceit, dialogue and the author's own despair...This is a story with frenzy at its heart . (James Naughtie, Telegraph ). John le Carre's bullet train of a new thriller is part vintage John le Carre and part Alfred Hitchcock...The author's most thrilling thriller in years . ( The New York Times ).
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