Michael Jayston reads this taut, suspenseful novel from the master of spy fiction, John le Carre. 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. 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. But he wants something else too, something which propels the young ...
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Michael Jayston reads this taut, suspenseful novel from the master of spy fiction, John le Carre. 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. 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. 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. 'No writer has done more with the spy thriller than John le Carre' - "Observer." This is a complete and unabridged reading by Michael Jayston.
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Excellent service, book exactly as described and well packaged for delivery.
Robert H
Jun 21, 2015
His Kind of Venom
Once again Le Carré displays his superb skill as a storyteller, but again he ruins his story through a pervasive bitterness toward the West; i.e., Britain and America, and their governments. What was a tolerable skepticism in his early works (cf. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold) has become virtually an obsession, and this work only leaves a sense of the sour venom that motivates its author.
Fatmouse
Mar 31, 2012
Not my cup of tea
It was a disappointment. The most boring book I have read of late. Was there a point to it?
BrianE
Dec 16, 2010
a better "recent" Le Carre
one of his better books in a while. Great storytelling.