Our Kind of Traitor by John le Carré First Edition Viking 2010. A fine copy, appearing as new and unread. Contents and edges unblemished, covers bright and unmarked. In like dust jacket that has no creasing, loss or tears. Not price clipped.

On a balmy Antigua holiday, idealistic Oxford tutor Perry Makepeace and his barrister lover Gail strike up a tennis friendship with Dima, a boisterous Russian oligarch who's the go-to money-launderer for a brutal Chechen mafia syndicate. Back in England, Dima's desperate plea for defection—offering explosive files on Kremlin corruption—ropes the couple into MI6's clandestine web, where bumbling handlers, treacherous double-agents, and frantic exfiltrations unfold across wintry Swiss chalets and sunlit Côte d'Azur villas. Le Carré contrasts the duo's crumbling domestic bliss against espionage's sordid machinery, crafting a tone of propulsive anxiety infused with mordant wit and aching moral regret at idealism's collision with oligarchic avarice.

This taut late le Carré gem seduces readers with its fusion of intimate relationship strains and sweeping indictments of global finance's dark undercurrents, echoing the ethical reckonings in Graham Greene's The Quiet American or his own The Night Manager, luring fans of character-rich suspense that probes complicity's quiet horrors. Collectors venerate it for distilling the author's enduring crusade against institutional rot, its cultural acuity in unmasking post-Soviet kleptocracy positioning it as a vital artifact for those charting espionage's pivot from ideology to economics. Tailored to discerning grown-ups—lawyers, lecturers, and justice seekers—it marries page-turning intrigue with philosophical heft, inviting cinephiles too via its vivid Hosseini adaptation while underscoring betrayal's universal sting.