Our Kind of Traitor: A Novel (Movie Tie-In)
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ISBN: 0143129643 / Publisher: Penguin Books, June 2016
Vacationing in Antigua, Perry and Gail are recruited by a big-time Russian money launderer to help him defect, an arrangement for which he promises to expose financial corruption but renders the couple pawns in a deadly scheme, in a book that is soon to be a major motion picture starring Ewan McGregor. Reissue. Movie tie-in.
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and The Night Manager, now a television series starring Tom Hiddleston. John le Carré’s new novel, A Legacy of Spies, is now available.In this exquisitely told novel, John le Carré shows us once again his acute understanding of the world we live in and where power really lies. In the wake of the collapse of Lehman Brothers and with Britain on the brink of economic ruin, a young English couple takes a vacation in Antigua. There they meet Dima, a Russian who styles himself the world’s Number One money-launderer and who wants, among other things, a game of tennis. Back in London, the couple is subjected to an interrogation by the British Secret service who also need 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.
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