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Our Kind of Traitor
- Narrated by: Michael Jayston
- Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
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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.
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Overall1 out of 5 stars
- Anonymous User
- 07-11-10
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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Overall1 out of 5 stars
- Stewart Gibson
- 26-10-10
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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Overall2 out of 5 stars
- Laurence
- 29-10-10
A tired Offering from the Old Master
It is a noteworthy fact that publishers push their successful writers into one more book.thus it is that the masters last work(s) are some of his worst and lack the intensity of the earlier writing which so captivated its readers.So it is with this, the latest John Le Carre. The sexy adventure is not a genre that he is comfortable with and a heroine where he has not been happy in the past. The result is a rather superficial romp with the Russian Mafia, a sexually active couple so easily accepted into the Espionage Community. Even that community has changed and silly factions are a feature, which, come to think of it, may well be authentic as is the exaggeration of a Midlands accent of the chief when Labour is in power.
Michael Jayston does his best with the book but even he cannot prevent this book from fatigue and heaviness.
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
- Philip
- 21-10-10
Ponderous
I do like Le Carre books, but...
This is a slow paced novel about a dull couple who get approached by an acquaintance they have just met to help him escape into the arms of the British government. The two most interesting characters we only know from the words they speak and the actions they take; not from their inner thoughts. The dullest people in the book we unfortunately get to hear all of their banal thoughts, fears and troubles at every step of the way.
This should be an interesting, if not exactly exciting, story, It is told though in the most uninteresting and long winded way possible and the finale, which I did not see coming (probably because by that point I really believed nothing interesting would happen at all in this novel) occurred in the dying seconds of the story, as if Le Carre had himself got so bored by this point he just wanted to finish, post the script and get his cheque.
The narrator does a decent job of dealing with the different voices and foreign accents, but adds no pace nor excitement.
Really, don't bother: save your money/credit for a better book.
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Overall1 out of 5 stars
- Martyn Oakley
- 30-09-10
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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Overall1 out of 5 stars
- John
- 26-11-12
Can I have my 11 hours back please?
A fairly dull story made worse by the comically bad dialogue of almost everyone in the book under 50 years old including the two main protagonists.
Furthermore the aforementioned protaganists were unintentionally irritating and one dimensional.
And to top it off the book ends at it's most (only?) interesting point...
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Overall1 out of 5 stars
- David
- 03-10-11
stay with want you know
Great author on the cold war, struggling to write outside what he knows. A shame as the Karla trilogy is exceptional
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