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Our Kind of Traitor

By: John le Carré
Narrated by: Michael Jayston
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Summary

Set in contemporary, recession gripped Britain, 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.

What 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.

©2010 David Cornwell (P)2014 Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd.

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Never again

I have been listening to audiobooks for many years and have never ever listened to a book which bored me as rigidly as this one. Because I had never read one of John le Carre's books before I was keen to download one of his books to give it a try. Even the valiant attempts of the narrator to breath live into this dull book never manages to overcome the frankly very thin story line. None of the characters become more than cardboard caricatures, and his description of women seems to have successfully bypassed modern life. The end, when it finally comes, feels rushed and totally predictable. How is it possible that a writer with a reputation like his ends up writing such drivel. I was determined to listen to the whole book, but ended up wasting my time, never again!

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Dull, boring, slow, !!!

I Have never not finished an audible book - until this one, it is unbelieveably slow, and frankly dull!!
I have given up.... Take my advice and dont bother, if you do hope you can stay awake.

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Much ado about nothing really

Well read (despite the dodgy Australian accent) and it did keep me entertained, but really the ending left me feeling so totally cheated and short changed, that in the end I could only think why had I bothered!

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Not impressed

I started to listen to this thinking that Le Carr? was a good writer of spy and suspense, but was very quickly annoyed by the totaly un-necessary use of very bad language. In the end it overtook tha story line and was turned off.

I will be very hesitant before I get another from le Carr?. Not impressed at all and would give it zero stars if that were possible!

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get on with it

Listened to many audiobooks.Downloaded after Time magazine recommendation. Lasted two hours into the story then deleted from iPod. Boring, drawn out. Like the reader, but the book fails to capture me totally.

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Classic le Carré intrigue

Another really good story from le Carré, who is back on top form after his somewhat underwhelming ‘Mission Song’ (2006).

The story begins with a fine, sporty young couple, Perry Makepeace and Gail Perkins, who have an improbable encounter on the island of Antigua with an unusual Russian, Dima.

One curiosity of the story is its extremely long ramp-up: almost the first half of the novel is taken up with establishing “What happened?” during that first encounter with Dima on the tennis court in Antigua, and over the subsequent days. This swathe of the story is, however, far from uninteresting; on the contrary, it builds up the intrigue nicely, whilst establishing the relationships between the key players, not least Perry and Gail and Dima’s copious extended family.

The second half of the novel is just as good. From start to finish, we have here a tale of real intrigue which carries you along all the way to the final page.

Michael Jayston’s narration is, as always, splendid. It looks as though this is the final opportunity to listen to him narrating le Carré. With the next novel, 2013’s ‘A Delicate Truth,’ I guess we have reached the age when popular novels would be published simultaneously in print and audiobook format, as that one is by Penguin (not Bolinda) and narrated by John le Carré himself.

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Classic Le Carre

Classic Le Carre beautifully narrated by Jayston, as ever. I had either read/viewed/listened to this some time ago as I had a vague memory of the plot but despite this the writing and reading kept me interested throughout.
Only problem being, it rather spoils it for so much of the second division literature out there.

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Well read but totally pointless

I am not going to say good things about the book simply because it is Le Carre.

This story started well but faded into nothingness. There seemed no point to the story whatsoever and the ending was most unexpected and disappointing.

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One of his best

Just can't have enough of le Carré and Michael Jayston. Among the non-Smiley books, this one is, to my opinion, one of his best. The end leaves it to the readers to imagine what could have happened. Sadly, what le Carré has depicted so vividly in this book is not limited to UK. Other countries, also European countries and the EU, are not immune from corruption. Als always, Michael Jayston's narration is absolutely masterful and thoroughly enjoyable.

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The cruel world

Brilliant. Faithful detail. Unremitting. Very Le Carre. A tale of moral failure despite hopefulness and love.

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