Our Kind of Traitor: An Abridged Reading by John le Carre
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| Rating | : | 4.58 (999 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1408467399 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 360 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-08-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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"The Recruitment of Amateur Spies" according to 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 b. "Britain and le Carre: the Final Ironic Chapter" according to Steven C. Hull. 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 ha. , 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 ha. 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
All rights reserved. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Even though Perry wins, Dima takes a shine to the couple, and soon they're visiting with his extended family. 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. 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 wil
John le Carré reads his own taut, suspenseful tale of dirty money and dirtier politics.. Britain is in the depths of recession. Seemingly by 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. 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