{"product_id":"our-kind-of-traitor-john-le-carre","title":"Our Kind of Traitor (John Le Carré)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn John le Carré's electrifying novel \u003ci\u003eOur Kind of Traitor\u003c\/i\u003e, innocents abroad are drawn into the darkest recesses of the financial world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'If you want to know about the state of Britain today, forget the Booker shortlist. Just read John le Carré's latest thriller' \u003ci\u003eEvening Standard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn le Carré\u003c\/b\u003e was born in 1931. For six decades, he wrote novels that came to define our age. The son of a confidence trickster, he spent his childhood between boarding school and the London underworld. At sixteen he found refuge at the University of Bern, then later at Oxford. A spell of teaching at Eton led him to a short career in British Intelligence (MI5 \u0026amp; 6). He published his debut novel, \u003ci\u003eCall for the Dead\u003c\/i\u003e, in 1961 while still a secret servant. His third novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Spy Who Came in from the Cold\u003c\/i\u003e, secured him a worldwide reputation, which was consolidated by the acclaim for his trilogy, \u003ci\u003eTinker Tailor Soldier Spy\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Honourable Schoolboy\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSmiley's People\u003c\/i\u003e. At the end of the Cold War, le Carré widened his scope to explore an international landscape including the arms trade and the War on Terror. His memoir, \u003ci\u003eThe Pigeon Tunnel\u003c\/i\u003e, was published in 2016 and the last George Smiley novel, \u003ci\u003eA Legacy of Spies\u003c\/i\u003e, appeared in 2017. He died on 12 December 2020. His posthumous novel, \u003ci\u003eSilverview,\u003c\/i\u003e was published in 2021.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), B-format, Englisch, 400 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65906612339037,"sku":"K043050318","price":10.8,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/4305031800001A.jpg?v=1789259466","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/our-kind-of-traitor-john-le-carre","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}