Our kind of traitor

305 pages

English language

Published Jan. 13, 2010 by Viking.

ISBN:
978-0-670-91901-7
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OCLC Number:
640080372

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"In the wake of the collapse of Lehman Brothers and with Britain on the brink of economic ruin, a young English couple takes a tennis vacation in Antigua. There they meet Dima, a Russian who styles himself the world's number one money launderer. Dima wants, among other things, a game of tennis. Back in London, the couple is subjected to an all-night interrogation by the British Secret Service, which also needs their help. Their acquiescence will lead them on a precarious journey through Paris to a safe house in Switzerland, helpless pawns in a game of nations that reveals the unholy alliances between the Russian mafia, the City of London, the government and the competing factions of the British Secret Service"--Page 2 of cover.

4 editions

Subjects

  • Russians
  • Money laundering
  • Corrupt practices
  • Fiction
  • Gangsters
  • Defectors
  • English fiction
  • Banks and banking

Places

  • Antigua and Barbuda
  • Antigua