Our Kind of Traitor

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Price
$16.00  $14.88
Publisher
Penguin Books
Publish Date
Pages
320
Dimensions
5.4 X 8.1 X 1.0 inches | 0.61 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780143119722

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About the Author
John le Carré was born in 1931. For six decades, he wrote novels that came to define our age. The son of a con man, he spent his childhood between boarding school and the London underworld. At sixteen he found refuge at the university of Bern, then later at Oxford. A spell of teaching at Eton led him to a short career in British Intelligence (MI5&6). He published his debut novel, Call for the Dead, in 1961 while still a secret servant. His third novel, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, secured him a worldwide reputation, which was consolidated by the acclaim for his trilogy Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Honourable Schoolboy, and Smiley's People. At the end of the Cold War, le Carré widened his scope to explore an international landscape including the arms trade and the War on Terror. His memoir, The Pigeon Tunnel, was published in 2016 and the last George Smiley novel, A Legacy of Spies, appeared in 2017. He died on December 12, 2020.
Reviews
"One of our great writers of moral ambiguity, a tireless explorer of that darkly contradictory no-man's land...Our Kind of Traitor brims with deftly drawn characters navigating a treacherously uncertain landscape that seems ripped from yesterday's papers and re-created with an absolutely certain hand."--Tim Rutten, Los Angeles Times

"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."--The Chicago Tribune.