Title: Our Kind of Traitor
Author: John LeCarre
Did I listen or read?: Read library book
When did I finish?: Oct 21, 2011
When was the book published: 2010
Main Characters: Perry Makepeace and his girl Gail. Dima the russian banker for the mob. spies Luke, Ollie, Hector and Billy Boy their boss, and Aubrey Longrigg, super spy.
What happens? Perry and Gail take holiday in Antigua and get lured into Dima's life and family. Perry beats him at tennis and Dima decides that Perry will help him run away to England and become a whistleblower on the new russian mafia boss the Prince. Dima's family (crazy wife Tamara, two twin older boys, daughter Natasha from a previous wife, two little girls orphaned by the murder of their parents by the Prince.
How long was this? about 300 pages.
Did I like this? It was the author's usual slow spy writing but the action picked up in the 2nd half of the book - it was pretty exciting and he did a good job with letting you get to know the characters. I have never read a quality book with a worse ending. The ending was completely unacceptable - no explanation for what happened, it just ends.
Overall grade: C+
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