Our Kind of Traitor

By John le Carré

Subjects: Millionaires, Mafia, English, Fiction, espionage, Corrupt practices, Banks and banking, Money laundering, Caribbean area, fiction, Gangsters, Russians, Fiction, College teachers, fiction, Defectors, Corruption, Secret service, Fiction, thrillers, espionage, Criminals, fiction

Description: "In the wake of the collapse of Lehman Brothers and with Britain on the brink of economic ruin, a young English couple takes a tennis vacation in Antigua. There they meet Dima, a Russian who styles himself the world's number one money launderer. Dima wants, among other things, a game of tennis. Back in London, the couple is subjected to an all-night interrogation by the British Secret Service, which also needs 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"--Page 2 of cover.