Single & Single
Friday, January 8th, 2010
Tiger Single is a bent lawyer, Oliver Single his son and legal partner. When Oliver discovers the firm’s real business – providing legal services and money laundering for Russian criminals - he betrays his father to the authorities. When the Russians believe Tiger has betrayed them he disappears and Oliver ends up trying to find him for the authorities and for his own protection.
This is shorter than le Carré’s more famous novels, but written in the same maddening and captivating oblique style. I’d have to call it a lesser le Carré, but a lesser le Carré is still a very good book.
