Our Kind of Traitor
by John le Carréliterary work· published 2010
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Our Kind of Traitor, published in 2010, is a novel by the British author John le Carré, about a Russian money launderer seeking to defect after his close friend is killed by his new superiors. On a tennis holiday in Antigua, British university lecturer Peregrine "Perry" Makepiece and his lawyer girlfriend Gail Perkins meet mysterious Russian oligarch Dmitri "Dima" Vladimirovich Krasnov and his family. Dima, who describes himself as "the world's number one money launderer", deliberately sought contact with Perry hoping that he is a British spy or knows one. This is because Dima wants Perry to pass on information about his criminal activities to British intelligence in exchange for protection for himself and his family.
Adaptations (1)
Our Kind of Traitor was adapted into a 2016 film.
Our Kind of Traitor2016 · film · 108 min · dir. Susanna White · IMDb ↗A young Oxford academic and his attorney girlfriend holiday in Morocco. They bump into a Russian millionaire who owns a peninsula and a diamond watch. He wants a game of tennis. What else he wants propels the lovers on a tortuous journey to the City of London and its unholy alliance with Britain's intelligence establishment, to Paris and the Alps.
