Our kind of traitor

Michael Jayston reads this taut, suspenseful novel from the master of spy fiction, John le Carre.

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.

Seemingly by 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.

But he wants something else too, something which 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. 'No writer has done more with the spy thriller than John le Carre' - "Observer." This is a complete and unabridged reading by Michael Jayston.