Our kind of traitor : a novel
Le Carre, John (1931- 2020)
Our kind of traitor : a novel / John le Carré - New York : Viking , 2010. - 306 p. ; 22 cm.
In the wake of the collapse of Lehman Brothers and with Britain on the brink of economic ruin, a young English couple takes a tennis vacation in Antigua. There they meet Dima, a Russian who styles himself the world's number one money launderer. Dima wants, among other things, a game of tennis. Back in London, the couple is subjected to an all-night interrogation by the British Secret Service, which also needs their help. Their acquiescence will lead them on a precarious journey through Paris to a safe house in Switzerland, helpless pawns in a game of nations that reveals the unholy alliances between the Russian mafia, the City of London, the government and the competing factions of the British Secret Service.
English.
9780670022243
College teachers----Fiction
Gangsters----Fiction
Defectors----Fiction
Russians----Fiction
Money laundering ---Fiction
Spy stories
Legal stories
PR6062.E33 / O973 2010
FIC LEC
Our kind of traitor : a novel / John le Carré - New York : Viking , 2010. - 306 p. ; 22 cm.
In the wake of the collapse of Lehman Brothers and with Britain on the brink of economic ruin, a young English couple takes a tennis vacation in Antigua. There they meet Dima, a Russian who styles himself the world's number one money launderer. Dima wants, among other things, a game of tennis. Back in London, the couple is subjected to an all-night interrogation by the British Secret Service, which also needs their help. Their acquiescence will lead them on a precarious journey through Paris to a safe house in Switzerland, helpless pawns in a game of nations that reveals the unholy alliances between the Russian mafia, the City of London, the government and the competing factions of the British Secret Service.
English.
9780670022243
College teachers----Fiction
Gangsters----Fiction
Defectors----Fiction
Russians----Fiction
Money laundering ---Fiction
Spy stories
Legal stories
PR6062.E33 / O973 2010
FIC LEC
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