Our kind of traitor
By: John Le Carre
Edition: Large print ed.
Series: Charnwood series
Publisher: Thorpe
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Leicester
Language: eng
Number of pages: 440
ISBN-13: 9781444807257
Subjects: Mafia; Fiction; Corruption; Millionaires; Secret service
Description: 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 ...
Notes: Adult.