Our Kind of Traitor

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.

'Chilling and astute ... In Our Kind of Traitor, there is not a hair out of place ... le Carré has done it again for our nasty new age'

The Times

'John le Carré's bullet train of a new thriller is part vintage John le Carré and part Alfred Hitchcock ... The author's most thrilling thriller in years'

The New York Times

'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'

The Sunday Times

'A compelling tale of deceit, dialogue and the author's own despair ... This is a story with frenzy at its heart'

The Daily Telegraph

'The breakneck pace of Le Carré’s narrative in the race to see whether Dima and his family will find safe haven never falters, nor does the author’s evocation of the contemporary immorality of international finance.'

The LA Times

Peregrine (Perry) Makepiece

Gail Perkins

Dimitri (Dima) Vladimirovich Krasnov

'The Prince'

Hector Meredith

Luke Weaver

Antigua

London, UK

Paris, France

Swiss Alps, Switzerland

Author: John le Carré