Book description
In John le Carr 's electrifying novel Our Kind of Traitor,
innocents abroad are drawn into the darkest recesses of the financial world.
Britain is in the depths of recession. A left-leaning young Oxford
academic and his barrister girlfriend take 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.
'If you want to know about the state of Britain today, forget the
Booker shortlist. Just read John le Carr 's latest thriller'
Evening Standard
'Few recent plays have had dialogue as good, and few recent literary
novels can boast a set of characters so vividly imagined. Our Kind
of Traitor is a teasing, beguiling, masterly performance'
Sunday Times
John le Carr 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 the last fifty years he has
lived by his pen. His most recent novel, A Delicate Truth, is
also published by Penguin. He divides his time between London and Cornwall.
