'So you didn't actually recognize them as bodyguards,' Luke suggested, his trim head eagerly switching between the two of them across the table. Use the HTML below. Our payment security system encrypts your information during transmission. Learn more about the program. The four lingered to exchange compliments, fix a return and maybe catch a drink in the bar this evening? Our Kind of Traitor Glenn Kenny July 01, 2016. Did you have your suspicions about them?'. “Part vintage John le Carré and part Alfred Hitchcock…the suspense in Our Kind of Traitor is genuine and nerve-racking.”—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times “I would suggest immortality for John le Carré, who I believe one of the most intelligent and entertaining writers working today.”— Another reviewer has commented somewhere on the increasing darkness in Le Carre's later novels, and the impotence of the goodness & compassion of ordinary people confronted with human nature depraved by power. And receiving no reply beyond a sympathetic purr: 'Hammering on about Byron, Keats and Wordsworth to a bunch of bored undergraduates whose highest ambition is to get a degree, get laid, and get rich? Good thriller from the master, John Le Carre, with some very interesting visuals by the director, Susanna White.The story concerns a young couple (Ewan McGregor and Naomie Harris) who meet a Russian, Dima (Stellan Skarsgard). With people like Lewis and Skarsgard in the cast, you know the acting will be top level, and it is. His 2010 novel, “Our Kind of Traitor,” capitalizes on explicit links between high profit gangsterism in the former USSR and government corruption in the West, whose self-righteous self-image is just one reason it likes to keep such things tightly under wraps. Perhaps you haven't heard about that, but the rest of us have, and we endeavour to live with it. Got great plans for it, we hear. At his State school he had been awarded the nickname of Giraffe, until those unwise enough to use it learned their lesson. 'If I was aware of them at all, I probably thought they were a couple of blokes giving me the eye, so I ignored them,' Gail replied. Puzzled, Perry came to a halt at his full height, not yet within frisking distance but a good six feet short, with Gail beside him. Whose do you think? And Gail, a sparky young barrister on the rise, blessed with looks and a quick tongue—sometimes a little too quick for her own comfort as well as Perry's—assured him that no revolution would be complete without him. Perry Makepiece and Gail Perkins, an innocent couple dragged into the world of crime and the security services in Our Kind of Traitor, Le Carré's 22nd novel, are two such figures. 'Don't run away, Mr Perry Makepiece. Add the first question. We had stars and a full moon and mating bullfrogs in full cry and a moonpath that ran practically to our table. Unlike his three companions, he wears no dark glasses. "Our Kind of Traitor" opened in July, 2016. Soon a handful of passers-by and players from other courts had drifted over to watch the four of them warm up: fluid strokes from the baseline casually returned, passing shots that nobody ran for, the unanswered smash from the net. The centre court was taken, but court 1 was free. They're a sight too classy for my other guests, I'll tell you that right now. From "Dexter" to The Suicide Squad, here are our picks for the reboots and remakes we're most excited for in 2021 and beyond. I thought it might be good to return to the old master of spy fiction. Receiving no response from the blank student faces staring up at him, he had supplied it for himself: no, Orwell would emphatically not have believed it. Between them ran a coral reef and a line of fluorescent buoys to ward off nosy motor yachts. 'Crime, Perry?' But Mark, having achieved his bridgehead, pressed home his advantage: 'Thank you, Perry, no doubles for Dima, I'm afraid,' he interjected smartly. 'There's a great game of tennis waiting in there. Same as any airport. In most cases, items shipped from Amazon.com may be returned for a full refund. If you're six foot two, Perry, darling, we're all below average, thought Gail. And no holiday could have been better planned, as it turned out, for by the time they had embarked on it, even bigger decisions were staring them in the face: What should Perry do with his life, and should they do it together? Her father, a sweetly useless actor, had died prematurely of alcohol, sixty cigarettes a day and a misplaced passion for his wayward wife. But on his left wrist he wears a bracelet of gold links. The one blond and baby-faced, the other dark-haired and languid? 'Do you gents speak English, by any chance?' Gail thought. They were posted either side of the flowered archway that led like a bridal walk to the door of the centre court, which was a world to itself, enclosed on four sides by canvas screens and twenty-foot high-hedges of hibiscus. Our Kind of Traitor Book Description : Two young lovers treat themselves to a once-in-a-lifetime holiday on the Caribbean island of Antigua. Soon they find themselves on a tortuous journey through Paris to a safe house in the Swiss Alps and, with the might of the Russian mafia closing in, begin to realize this particular match has the highest stakes of all. But before Dima could respond, Mark had let out a snort of sycophantic protest. Big-time international. Have I asked to look inside Dima's bag? With Carlos Acosta, Radivoje Bukvic, Stellan Skarsgård, Mariya Fomina. Ewan Gordon McGregor was born on March 31, 1971 in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland, to Carol Diane (Lawson) and James Charles McGregor, both teachers. 'Dima thought you played a pretty nifty match out there, am I right, sir? “One of our great writers of moral ambiguity, a tireless explorer of that darkly contradictory no-man’s land…. Our Kind of Traitor isn't a movie that you should rush out to see but you should give it a shot if you're curious. Title: Perry led the way up the second flight to where the path turned left. After a long second set, the score was one set each. Perry Makepiece and Gail Perkins, an innocent couple dragged into the world of crime and the security services in Our Kind of Traitor, Le Carré's 22nd novel, are two such figures. he asked with heavy gentility, taking in without comment the quality of Perry's battle-scarred racquets, his thick white socks and worn but serviceable tennis shoes, and Gail's neckline. has been added to your Cart. Therefore he lifted his long head slowly, the way tall, angular men do, and registered first a pair of leather espadrilles on small, almost feminine feet set piratically apart, then a couple of stocky, tracksuited calves in grey; and, coming up, the drawstring bow that kept the trousers aloft, double-tied as such a bow should be, given its considerable area of responsibility. Biography. (2016). Well, you people may. They were next deprived of their mobiles and invited to sign a declaration under the Official Secrets Act. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. A couple finds themselves lured into a Russian oligarch's plans to defect, and are soon positioned between the Russian Mafia and the British Secret Service, neither of whom they can trust. Perry's initial reaction to his life-decision to shake the dust of academia from his feet—irrevocable, like all Perry's life-decisions—was to return to his grass roots. He's an austere tutor at Oxford. When Perry and his wife, Gail, cross paths with the charismatic Dima on their Moroccan holiday, the forceful Russian is quick to challenge Perry to a friendly game of tennis. Her mother, an actress but less sweet, had vanished from the family home when Gail was thirteen, and was reputed to be living the simple life on the Costa Brava with a second cameraman. Both wearing trainers? Our Kind of Traitor: A No... Average Customer Ratings. Help others learn more about this product by uploading a video! She was prissy in Gail's initial perception of her, but in a bluestocking sort of way beautiful. 'Dima's security, Perry. On his spare evenings he helps out in a local youth club. They're Dima's boys. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in, Free returns are available for the shipping address you chose. Perry remained where he stood, craning his neck forward and sideways while he digested this advice. Fuck it. 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