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THE PENGUIN JOHN LE CARRÉ HARDBACK COLLECTION ...

In John le Carré's electrifying novel Our Kind of Traitor  innocents abroad are drawn into the
darkest recesses of the financial world.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.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.'If you want to know
about the state of Britain today  forget the Booker shortlist. Just read John le Carré's latest
thriller' Evening Standard'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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