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Our kind of traitor : a novel

Summary: "Britain is in the depths of recession. A left-leaning young Oxford academic and his barrister girlfriend take an off-peak holiday on the Caribbean island of Antigua. By seeming chance they bump into a Russian millionaire called Dima who owns a peninsula and a diamond-encrusted gold watch. He also has a tattoo on his right thumb, and wants a game of tennis. What else he wants propels the young lovers on a tortuous journey through Paris to a safe house in the Swiss Alps, to the murkiest cloisters of the City of London and its unholy alliance with Britain<U+2019>s Intelligence Establishment."--Inside jacket.

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  • ISBN: 9780143176299 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 9780143176299 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 9780670022243 (hc.)
  • ISBN: 9780670064786 (hc.)
  • Physical Description: 306 p. ; 24 cm.
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  • Publisher: Toronto : Viking Canada, c2010.
Subject: College teachers -- Fiction
Legal stories
Gangsters -- Fiction
Defectors -- Fiction
British -- Antigua and Barbuda -- Antigua -- Fiction
Russians -- Antigua and Barbuda -- Antigua -- Fiction
Money laundering -- Fiction
Banks and banking -- Corrupt practices -- Fiction
Intelligence service -- Great Britain -- Fiction
Antigua -- Fiction
Genre: Spy stories.
Spy stories.
Legal stories.

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  • 24 of 27 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Prince Rupert Library.

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Prince Rupert Library le Ca (Text) 33294001737410 Adult Fiction - Second Floor Volume hold Available -

Summary: "Britain is in the depths of recession. A left-leaning young Oxford academic and his barrister girlfriend take an off-peak holiday on the Caribbean island of Antigua. By seeming chance they bump into a Russian millionaire called Dima who owns a peninsula and a diamond-encrusted gold watch. He also has a tattoo on his right thumb, and wants a game of tennis. What else he wants propels the young lovers on a tortuous journey through Paris to a safe house in the Swiss Alps, to the murkiest cloisters of the City of London and its unholy alliance with Britain<U+2019>s Intelligence Establishment."--Inside jacket.
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