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 Carréâs majestic, thrilling, tragic, funny and utterly engrossing new novel of greed and corruption, from the arctic hells of the gulag archipelago to a billionaireâs yacht anchored off the Adriatic coast; to the Menâs 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 storyâs terrifying end.
Categories:
- Literature & Fiction
Publisher : Penguin Canada
Author : le Carré, John
Language : English
Published :2011-05-31
Number Of Pages : 448
Binding : mass_market
ISBN-10 : 0143176293
ISBN-13 : 9780143176299
Item weight : 0.65 lb
Dimensions : 1.34 in x 4.17 in x 7.48 in
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