Two young lovers treat themselves to a once-in-a-lifetime holiday on the Caribbean island of Antigua. He's an austere tutor at Oxford. She's a sparky, rising London barrister. Their native Britain is floundering in debt. On the second day of their holiday, they encounter a rich, charismatic, fifty-something Russian millionaire called Dima, who owns a peninsula, wears a diamond-encrusted Rolex watch, has a tattoo on the knuckle of his right thumb, and wants a game of tennis. What else Dima wants is the engine that drives ...
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Two young lovers treat themselves to a once-in-a-lifetime holiday on the Caribbean island of Antigua. He's an austere tutor at Oxford. She's a sparky, rising London barrister. Their native Britain is floundering in debt. On the second day of their holiday, they encounter a rich, charismatic, fifty-something Russian millionaire called Dima, who owns a peninsula, wears a diamond-encrusted Rolex watch, has a tattoo on the knuckle of his right thumb, and wants a game of tennis. What else Dima wants is the engine that drives John le Carre's majestic, thrilling, tragic, funny, and utterly engrossing novel of greed and corruption from the arctic hells of the gulag archipelago, to a billionaire's yacht anchored off the Adriatic coast, to the men's final of the French Open tennis championships at the Roland Garros stadium, to two murky Swiss bankers dubbed Peter and the Wolf, and finally and fatally to a Swiss alpine resort nestling in the shadow of the north face of the Eiger and the story's terrifying end.
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Robert H
Jun 21, 2015
His Kind of Venom
Once again Le Carré displays his superb skill as a storyteller, but again he ruins his story through a pervasive bitterness toward the West; i.e., Britain and America, and their governments. What was a tolerable skepticism in his early works (cf. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold) has become virtually an obsession, and this work only leaves a sense of the sour venom that motivates its author.
Fatmouse
Mar 31, 2012
Not my cup of tea
It was a disappointment. The most boring book I have read of late. Was there a point to it?
BrianE
Dec 16, 2010
a better "recent" Le Carre
one of his better books in a while. Great storytelling.
