{"product_id":"our-kind-of-traitor-p-b-z44","title":"John Le Carré: Our Kind of Traitor [2011] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn John le Carre's electrifying novel \u003ci\u003eOur Kind of Traitor\u003c\/i\u003e, innocents abroad are drawn into the darkest recesses of the financial world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBritain 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'If you want to know about the state of Britain today, forget the Booker shortlist. Just read John le Carre's latest thriller' \u003ci\u003eEvening Standard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Few recent plays have had dialogue as good, and few recent literary novels can boast a set of characters so vividly imagined. \u003ci\u003eOur Kind of Traitor\u003c\/i\u003e is a teasing, beguiling, masterly performance' \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn le Carre was born in 1931 and attended the universities of Bern and Oxford. He taught at Eton and served briefly in British Intelligence during the Cold War. For the last fifty years he has lived by his pen. His most recent novel, \u003ci\u003eA Delicate Truth\u003c\/i\u003e, is also published by Penguin. He divides his time between London and Cornwall.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Le, Carre John","offers":[{"title":"Good","offer_id":47530312532307,"sku":"XG80141049168","price":3.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Like New","offer_id":54226895602003,"sku":"XE80141049168","price":5.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":47491853025619,"sku":"XV80141049168","price":6.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"New","offer_id":44215983178018,"sku":"9780141049168","price":8.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/le-carre-john-john-le-carre-our-kind-of-traitor-2011-paperback-58414423834963.jpg?v=1783440207","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/our-kind-of-traitor-p-b-z44","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}