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In John le Carre''s electrifying novel Our Kind of Traitor, innocents abroad are drawn into the darkest recesses of the financial world.br>br>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.br>br>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.br>br>''If you want to know about the state of Britain today, forget the Booker shortlist. Just read John le Carre''s latest thriller'' Evening Standardbr>br>''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>
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John le Carré
Résumé
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.
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A remarkable book by the master. Reading it is a great experience Henning Mankell Daily Telegraph
