“Our Kind of Traitor, John le Carré’s bullet train of a new thriller, is part vintage John le Carré and part Alfred Hitchcock… The result is the author’s most thrilling thriller in years.”—The New York Times Book Review

A young English couple treats themselves to a once-in-a-lifetime holiday on the Caribbean island of Antigua. Peregrine “Perry” Makepiece is an austere tutor at Oxford; his girlfriend, Gail Perkins, is a rising London barrister.

On the second day of their holiday they encounter a rich, charismatic fifty-something Russian oligarch: Dmitri “Dima” Vladimirovich Krasnov. Dima owns a peninsula, wears a diamond-encrusted Rolex watch, has a tattoo on the knuckle of his right thumb, and calls himself “the world’s number one money launderer.” He also wants a game of tennis—and to defect to the West.

What else Dima wants is the engine that drives them from the arctic hells of the gulag archipelago to a billionaire’s yacht anchored off the Adriatic coast; to the Men’s Final of the French Open tennis championships at the Roland Garros stadium; to two murky Swiss bankers, dubbed Peter and the Wolf; and finally, fatally, to a Swiss alpine resort nestled in the shadow of the north face of the Eiger—and the story’s terrifying end.

Perry and Gail will be forced to confront their own moral limits as they find themselves in a deadly game of cat and mouse—one that could shatter their lives.

From the author of The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and A Perfect Spy, John le Carré, Our Kind of Traitor is a searing addition to le Carré’s masterful explorations of loyalty, trust, and the allure of power.