Our Kind of Traitor

This novel probably deserves more than 3 stars and Robin Sachs does a pitch perfect job of reading, with each character possessing a distinctive voice that reflects their personality to a T. But I am just so tired of LeCarres sad depressing endings where everyone you are rooting for loses and where several major story lines are left totally unresolved. I know, life is unresolved, but so what? This is a story, it has a plot, it introduces complex characters who all rush towards a tense climax, but then... nothing. Id be happy to send Mr. LeCarre some Prozac if he would just write a story where most of the good guys come out ahead and all the main story lines are resolved at least regarding the plots climax.

”Dima mightn’t exactly have been spoiled for choice when it came to selecting a messenger, confessor, or prisoner’s friend, or whatever it was that Perry has been appointed, or had appointed himself. She’d always known there was a slumbering romantic in him waiting to be woken when selfless dedicati......more

In Our kind of Traitor we meet two Perry and Gayle, who take off a vacation on a Caribbean island where they bump into Dima a Russian money launder for the Russian mafia who wants asylum for him and his family in return he will hand over evidence incriminating his co-conspirators in the black operat......more

Well this doesn’t just seem to be ‘The Worst Novel Le Carré Has Ever Written’, it actually jumps up and down and demands the title. It’s odd that an author who has spent half a century writing suspenseful and intelligent thrillers, should now produce one so lacking in suspense or interest. Certainly......more

Another wonderful book by John Le Carre. Easy to read and somehow you become invested in all the characters. Throughout I was wondering who the traitor was going to be on the British side amongst the characters I was introduced to. The only part I didn't like was the ending - it's been done before I......more

Not at the level of The Spy Who Came in From the Cold or the Smiley series, but still, very very good, and better than most of the stuff that le Carre has written since the end of the cold war. What's great about it? His effortless plotting and his thorough knowledge of the amorality of the world's......more