Our kind of traitor
By: John le Carré
Publisher: Viking
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 305
ISBN-13: 9780670919017
Subjects: Russians; Money laundering; Corrupt practices; Fiction; Gangsters; Defectors; English fiction; Banks and banking
Description: "In the wake of the collapse of Lehman Brothers and with Britain on the brink of economic ruin, a young English couple takes a tennis vacation in Antigua. There they meet Dima, a Russian who styles himself the world's number one money launderer. Dima wants, among other things, a game of tennis. Back in London, the couple is subjected to an all-night interrogation by the British Secret Service, which also needs their help. Their acquiescence will lead them on a precarious journey through Paris to a safe house in Switzerland, helpless pawns in a game of nations that reveals the unholy alliances between the Russian mafia, the City of London, the government and the competing factions of the British Secret Service"--Page 2 of cover.