Our Kind of Traitor

De: John le Carré

Narrado por: Michael Jayston

Duración: 11 h y 25 m

Resumen del Editor

Set in contemporary, recession gripped Britain, 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’s Intelligence Establishment.

©2010 David Cornwell (P)2014 Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd.

A THOROUGHLY ENJOYABLE,RIVETING MASTERPIECE

Any additional comments?

The story is riveting.The rendition excellent-It had me interested to the last second.It's contemporary,the characters well-developed and plausible.All in all another masterpiece by John Le Carre.

old style Le Carre meets new

I've been reading Le Carre for only 3 years and tend to like his less-well-regarded later novels better than his older classics. Audiobooks are, however, giving me better appreciation of the old, and THIS audiiobook seems the perfect marriage of Le Carre's traditional theme of innocents consumed by a compromising Brit insider-elite with the more overt social concerns of his later novels.

I found this as well-written, plotted and characterized as traditional LeCarre, but at the same time it's a very accessible listen.

Great Le Carre

Fascinating story, terrific characters. One of my favourite writers on excellent form. Wonderful reader too. Did all the dialogue brilliantly, which made the book even more exciting to listen to.

Waste of time

Would you try another book from John le Carré and/or Michael Jayston?

I will try earlier Le Carre books

What was most disappointing about John le Carré’s story?

Far too much descriptive detail and little story with an ending that made me think he got bored with the book as well as me.

Have you listened to any of Michael Jayston’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

No, but the performance was fine.

If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from Our Kind of Traitor?

All of it

Any additional comments?

This book makes me think Le Carre has lost his way.

Great book, very disappointing reading.

Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?

The first book I have bought from Audible that I was unable to finish

How did the narrator detract from the book?

Very disappointing reading. Two examples: An Australian character is given a very bad cockney accent. Gail, the main female character, is read in a breathy voice that reminds my of Marilyn Monroe in those old films, Gail is a successful barrister! She would not speak like that.
The reading became so irritating, for these and other similar reasons, that I have been unable to finish the book.
If the reader can't do accents and voices accurately, he or she should just read it straight, without any attempt to be in character.

Any additional comments?

My first serious Audible disappointment. I will need to be much more careful in my purchases in future.