Our Kind of Traitor
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.85 (579 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1408467577 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 513 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-11-15 |
| Language | : | English |
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Even though Perry wins, Dima takes a shine to the couple, and soon they're visiting with his extended family. His most accessible work in years, this novel shows once again why his name is the one to which all others in the field are compared. Le Carré ratchets up the tension step-by-step until the sad, inevitable end. While on holiday in Antigua, former Oxford tutor Perry Makepiece and his lawyer girlfriend, Gail Perkins, meet Dmitri "Dima" Vladimirovich Krasnov, an avuncular Russian businessman who challenges Perry to a tennis match. Those readers who have found post–cold war le Carré too cerebral will have much to cheer about with this Russian mafia spy thriller. Not only is Dima a Russian oligarch, he's also one of the world's biggest money launderers. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. At Dima's req
Mystery Buff said The Recruitment of Amateur Spies. It has been a while since I read a novel by John le Carre. I thought it might be good to return to the old master of spy fiction. I did have trouble with some of the author's vocabulary and terminology as he is more literate than I am. But it is a positive challenge to read le Carre which often requires that I back up a sentence or two, maybe even a page or two to get the gist of the author's meaning. What kept me plodding forward is wanting to understand how the title of the book explained its content. The author has always produced fascinating characters for his books. The English couple who encounter the Russian gangster while they are on . Britain and le Carre: the Final Ironic Chapter Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy captured me in 197Britain and le Carre: the Final Ironic Chapter Steven C. Hull Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy captured me in 1974, the rhythmic prose and the natural dialogue interspersed with spy craft jargon and British slang and sarcasm that jolted my American ear. I quickly acquired all of his previous novels as well as his subsequent novels over the years, all now in my library. Critics have always debated whether le Carre is a literary writer. Some said yes, some no. James Wood said, "By the standards of contemporary thrillers, it is magnificent but the detail is reassuringly flat nothing out of the ordinary commercial realism." Nevertheless, we always felt elitist to prefer le Carre to Clancy. His themes dealt with. , the rhythmic prose and the natural dialogue interspersed with spy craft jargon and British slang and sarcasm that jolted my American ear. I quickly acquired all of his previous novels as well as his subsequent novels over the years, all now in my library. Critics have always debated whether le Carre is a literary writer. Some said yes, some no. James Wood said, "By the standards of contemporary thrillers, it is magnificent but the detail is reassuringly flat nothing out of the ordinary commercial realism." Nevertheless, we always felt elitist to prefer le Carre to Clancy. His themes dealt with. Amazon Customer said Cynicism without Hope. Another reviewer has commented somewhere on the increasing darkness in Le Carre's later novels, and the impotence of the goodness & compassion of ordinary people confronted with human nature depraved by power. And the most corrupting power is that of secrecy - the spying Game. Le Carre has no answers, but he can't stop writing his observation either. so his novels are ending now on the edge of a cliff without a wrap-up or conclusion regarding the characters for whose fate we have come to hope. This does not make for a satisfying reading experience; and it does not speculate about what could be done to neutralize the corruption and cynicism of
'No writer has done more with the spy thriller than John le Carre' - "Observer." This is a complete and unabridged reading by Michael Jayston.. He also has a tattoo on his right thumb, and wants a game of tennis. But he wants something else too, something which 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. Michael Jayston reads this taut, suspenseful novel from the master of spy fiction, John le Carre. Seemingly by chance they bump into a Russian millionaire called Dima who owns a peninsula and a diamond-encrusted gold watch. Britain is in the depths of recession