Our Kind of Traitor Book Reviews

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His Best In Years. I truly enjoyed this story. A couple of the previous reviews were disappointed with the ending. To me, it was classic Le Carre. Life's questions are rarely answered completely, nor is everything wrapped up in the novel. The good guys don't always win, and even when they do they don't always survive their victory. John Le Carre has no equal writing literate spy novels.

Awful. Horrible ending, why did I waste my time reading this.

Our kind of traitor. Relatively entertaining, but I had really hoped for more after a good NYT review

Our Kind of Traitor. Le Carre brings us to the human side of agency work and we learn that there is no calm cool 007 in the real world. Bureaucratic bickering, ego and turf wars, the stuff of everyday life, are not left at the front gate. His characters become so well known one will miss them once the end is reached and here, the reader is left to create the ending using imagination. You can find more intense action threads from other writers bye Le Carre delivers a believable slice of life with the mundane and the suspense. A great read.

Grating.... John Le Carre began using a style of narration in "The Little Drummer Girl" that has become his hallmark. I find it grating and difficult to stay with, so am abandoning the book halfway through. The plot is very slow, & the devices distracting.

Our Kind Of Traitor. Terrible ending. le Carre has a good thing going. Interesting cast of characters - good and bad, intriguing plot, plenty of action. All in all a good read until the end. There is no ending - just a stop. le Carre kills off two of the main characters in the last two paragraphs. No indication of the fate of the other main characters. It's as if le Carre didn't know how to wind it up or he reached some magicnumbers of pages and then quit.

Great Read. I am a longtime fan of Le Carre and this book is one of his best. Right up there with Favorite Spy and Night Manager. I generally do not write reviews of books I have read, but this book was that good that I made an exception. Will not disappoint Le Carre fans.

Our Kind of Traitor. Was left wanting at the end. The end was like dropping out of a marathon at mile 22. Why bother in the first place then?

Very good, very British, very hard to read for an American. Perhaps I'm not smart enough. Or British enough. Either way there many words not known to apple's dictionary nor mine so i was often pausing to look up. Even with an ipad this took a good deal of time away for me personally and unknown words and sayings left me lost at times. Other than that it was a very good story. Imaginative, compelling, believable and very intelligent.

Fist in punching bag. Every pleasure Le Carre steadily supplied in his body of work is abundantly on offer here.

Disappointing Ending. John Le Carre introduces us convincingly to the post 9-11 world of British espionage where terrorism, drugs and money-laundering are the threats to be countered, and the intelligence bureaucracy is the main obstacle to be overcome. It is peopled by an entertaining mix of heroes and villains and bits of both who are among the most fun to be found in all his books. Le Carre lays out the plot in a relaxed manner, but as the game plays out, the suspense grows apace. Then, suddenly, the story ends with a dull thud. That is the author's intention, unfortunately. I just felt cheated.

Very poor. Difficult to follow to a point where you don't bother. Confusing to a fault.

Great read. Our Kind Of Traitor is my kind of book. A look into the present day state of affairs in the spy trade through the thoughts of those guilty and not. Per usual, Le Carre spins an intoxicating tale without getting drunk on his own prose. It is always a pleasure to read the words of one so comfortable with the English language. A clever writer who's not tempted to be even a bit too clever. The story itself follows a young English couple as they innocently step into the web of a Russian mobster. Were that not dire enough, they soon find them ensnared by English intelligence service. Sadly, the novel ends like all Le Carre novels...leaving me depressed that it will be at least another year or two before I can pick up, or download, his next jewel.

Gripping, melancholy, fantastic.. I think that one of the problems that many people have going into reading Le Carre is that they expect something Ludlumesque, with guns, explosions and sex abound. Though his stories are gripping, they unfold slowly, layer by layer, until, despite the minimum of violence, they bristle with tension. This isn't his best, but is so far superior to other espionage thrillers. Anyone who loves his other books will be pleased, and if you are looking to give him a shot, this is a fine place to start.

You can't point to his worst. Book; they're all serviceable and fit for duty, if a bit scruffy and hung-over. Mejor dicho, after thirty years of decline and indulgence: alarmingly unkempt and perhaps still a little drunk in the light of day. More and more he resembles an old colonial administrator going to seed, whatever he once believed entombed in cynicism, contempt, and cliche. I've read them all, hoping against experience he'd regain a step or two. But no. I suspect what failed him was his courage, a long time ago, even before he could face the dark eyes open. So he never did, pity.

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