Le Carre, John. Our Kind of Traitor. Viking.
“Everything old is new again!” penned the late songwriter Peter Allen. This tale by the creator of Alec Leamas and George Smiley has all the flavor of a Cold War spy story in dealing with modern international villains. Dima, a money launderer in his fifties, wants to spill all he knows about Russian organized crime kingpins in exchange for sanctuary in England and getting his children enrolled in prestigious Eton. Dima’s go-betweens are Gail and Perry, an upwardly mobile and unmarried British couple on a Carribean tennis vacation. Within a universe where every detail down to headwear reminds one of an old time espionage novel, the young pair soon find that their initially reluctant mission is being made difficult by a British Secret Service at cross purposes with Parliament. It might have been better for Perry to forget the whole business and do the old-fashioned thing every male suggests to him: marry Gail!
Also by John Le Carre at Merrick Library:
Absolute Friends
Call For The Dead
The Little Drummer Girl
The Mission Song
A Most Wanted Man
The Night Manager
Our Game
Single And Single
Smiley's People
The Spy Who Came In From The Cold
The Tailor Of Panama
Reviewed by librarian, Bob.
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