Our Kind of Traitor: An Abridged Reading by John le Carre
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| Rating | : | 4.13 (752 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1408467399 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 548 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-08-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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John le Carré reads his own taut, suspenseful tale of dirty money and dirtier politics.. A leftleaning young Oxford academic and his barrister girlfriend take an offpeak holiday on the Caribbean island of Antigua. 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. He also has a tattoo on his right thumb, and wants a game of tennis. 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
The Recruitment of Amateur Spies Mystery Buff 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 enc. Steven C. Hull said 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 pr. , 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 pr. Cynicism without Hope Amazon Customer 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 don
At Dima's request, Perry conveys a message to MI6 in England that Dima wishes to defect, and on arriving home, Perry and Gail receive a summons from MI6 to a debriefing. Even though Perry wins, Dima takes a shine to the couple, and soon they're visiting with his extended family. All rights reserved. Not only is Dima a Russian oligarch, he's also one of the world's biggest money launderers. While on holiday in Antigua, former Oxford tutor Perry Makepiece and his lawyer girlfriend, Gail Perkins, meet Dmitri "Dima" Vladimi