Our Kind of Traitor
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Two young lovers treat themselves to a once-in-a-lifetime holiday on the Caribbean island of Antigua. Hes an austere tutor at Oxford. Shes a sparky rising London barrister. Their native Britain is floundering in debt. On the second day of their holiday they encounter a rich charismatic fifty-something Russian millionaire called Dima who owns a peninsula wears a diamond-encrusted Rolex watch has a tattoo on the knuckle of his right thumb and wants a game of tennis. What else Dima wants is the engine that drives John le Carrs majestic thrilling tragic funny and utterly engrossing novel of greed and corruption from the arctic hells of the gulag archipelago to a billionaires yacht anchored off the Adriatic coast to the mens final of the French Open tennis championships at the Roland Garros stadium to two murky Swiss bankers dubbed Peter and the Wolf and finally and fatally to a Swiss alpine resort nestling in the shadow of the north face of the Eiger and the storys terrifying end.
