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conversations.value: Our Kind of Traitor: On a tennis holiday in Antigua, British university lecturer Peregrine "Perry" Makepiece and his lawyer girlfriend Gail Perkins meet mysterious Russian business oligarch Dmitri "Dima" Vladimirovich Krasnov and his family.\nDima, who describes himself as "the world\'s number one money launderer," deliberately sought contact with Perry hoping that he is a British spy or knows one.\nThis is because Dima wants Perry to pass on information about his criminal activities to British intelligence, in exchange for protection for himself and his family.\nDima fears for his life because "The Prince", the new leader of his criminal brotherhood, had a good friend of Dima and his wife murdered.\nThe Prince now wants Dima to come to Bern to sign over control of the money-laundering operations to him.\nBack in the UK, Perry reaches out to a colleague with contacts in the British intelligence community and hands over Dima\'s notes.\nSince these implicate a high-ranking decision maker in the UK, British intelligence decides to put government fixer Hector Meredith in charge of a secret semi-official investigation.\nHector recruits disgraced intelligence officer Luke Weaver to handle the investigation.\nLuke, eager to redeem himself, makes all the necessary arrangements.\nDima insists that Perry and Gail be present during his first contact with British intelligence in Paris during the 2009 Roland Garros final, so the couple travel to Paris where they again meet with Dima and his family.\nAfter Dima signs the papers handing over his assets to a representative of "The Prince", he meets with Luke and is extracted, along with his family, to a safe house in the Swiss Alps.\nThey wait there until British intelligence insists that only Dima travel to the UK; his family will be allowed to join him later if his information proves correct.\nDima reluctantly agrees and travels with Luke to catch the charter plane that is supposed to bring them to the UK, only to be killed as the plane crashes shortly after take-off.
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conversations.value: Our Kind of Traitor (film): As part of a plan to launder billions of dollars in London, "the Prince" – the head of the Russian Mafia – creates a new bank and has its financial oligarchs sign over their accounts to him.\nThe first oligarch to do so is murdered alongside his family by a blue-eyed assassin.\nPoetics lecturer Perry MacKendrick and his barrister wife Gail are on a holiday in Morocco to try and salvage their marriage after Perry slept with one of his students.\nPerry strikes up a friendship with Dima, a hearty and boisterous Russian with an eidetic memory.\nThe two men bond over drinks and tennis before Dima invites both MacKendricks to his daughter\'s birthday.\nAt the birthday party, Dima gets Perry alone and gives him a USB stick that links corrupt British politicians and businessmen to the Russian mafia.\nHe fears for his life after hearing of his fellow oligarch\'s fate, and pleads with Perry to turn the USB stick over to British MI6 when he returns to London.\nPerry turns the information over to Hector, the investigator in charge.\nThe information provided by Dima enables Hector and his supervisor Billy to witness a meeting between the Prince and Aubrey Longrigg, a senior politician whom Hector knows is corrupt, although he has never been able to prove it.\nBilly refuses to sanction an investigation on a chance meeting.\nHector continues regardless and recruits the MacKendricks to help stage a chance encounter with Dima in France.\nThere, Dima provides all the names of the corrupt, and confirms each banker and politician involved has received £5 million each for their endorsement of the new bank, with Aubrey Longrigg receiving £10 million plus an additional £20 million for every politician or banker he personally recruited to the cause.\nDima refuses to provide the bank account numbers that would verify the corruption, until he and his family have been granted asylum in London.\nEmilion, the Prince\'s consigliere, suspects the MacKendricks and has henchman Niki intimidate them by bringing them to his rough neighbourhood.\nWhilst there, the blue-eyed assassin beats a woman and Perry attacks him in fury.\nGail is touched by her husband\'s protectiveness of others and their relationship begins to heal.\nHector reveals to the MacKendricks that he only has two men and that he has been funding the operation himself, and they plan to seize Dima and his family simultaneously after Dima has signed the accounts over to the bank.\nGail successfully retrieves Dima\'s wife and children, whilst Dima kills Niki before Perry can find him and bring him to safety.\nWhilst at the airport with the family about to board a charter plane back to London, Billy calls Hector and informs him that Aubrey Longrigg has convinced the Home Office the family be denied asylum.\nWith their plan thwarted, Hector must return to London alone.\nThe MacKendricks refuse to leave Dima and the family until the asylum is granted and they are safe in London.\nGiven the MacKendricks\' involvement, Hector sends everyone to a safehouse in the French Alps.\nWhile there, Dima\'s daughter blows their cover by calling one of Dima\'s bodyguards, Andre, by whom she is pregnant.\nAndre traces the location of the call and the blue-eyed assassin leads an attack on the safehouse, but it is fended off by Dima and the agents.\nDima chases the blue-eyed assassin into the woods, but is ambushed and almost beaten to death before Perry arrives and kills the assassin.\nMeanwhile, Hector has returned to London and attempted to convince the UK Treasury Office that the Prince\'s bank is a cover to launder billions of dirty Russian mafia money in London.\nHe succeeds, but for asylum to be granted to Dima and his family, he must provide proof in the form of all the account numbers and names of the corrupt UK politicians and bankers involved in endorsing the bank - the detail that Dima still has in his head.\nA deal is made that Dima must be sent onto London first via helicopter, with his family to follow once the account information he has memorised has been verified.\nThe attack at the safe house and his wife\'s insistence convinces Dima to go on ahead and Perry volunteers to accompany him.\nThe family and Gail are driven to another safe house while Dima, Perry and Hector\'s agent head to the helicopter rendezvous location.\nAt the last minute, Dima insists Perry not come with him on the helicopter.\nAs Perry watches the helicopter take off it explodes over the Alps, killing Dima and Hector\'s agent and devastating the MacKendricks and Hector.\nAll is lost.\nThe mafia bank opens in London and begins trading at massive profit; Aubrey Longrigg is announced as the new Minister of State for Trade and Investment.\nDima\'s family receives asylum after all, arranged by Hector as compensation for Dima\'s murder while under his protection.\nPerry visits Hector at home and gives him a gift from Dima, a box containing the ornate pistol that the Prince had given Dima upon the signing of the accounts.\nAfter Perry leaves, Hector finds a tiny roll of paper addressed to him from Dima with the list of all the corrupt Britons\' names and account numbers hidden in the pistol\'s chamber.\nWith this information, Hector is able to expose the Prince\'s money laundering network and the role of Longrigg and the other politicians within it.
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conversations.value: \nWith this information, Hector is able to expose the Prince\'s money laundering network and the role of Longrigg and the other politicians within it.\nThe first oligarch to do so is murdered alongside his family by a blue-eyed assassin.\nPoetics lecturer Perry MacKendrick and his barrister wife Gail are on a holiday in Morocco to try and salvage their marriage after Perry slept with one of his students.\nPerry strikes up a friendship with Dima, a hearty and boisterous Russian with an eidetic memory.\nThe two men bond over drinks and tennis before Dima invites both MacKendricks to his daughter\'s birthday.\nAt the birthday party, Dima gets Perry alone and gives him a USB stick that links corrupt British politicians and businessmen to the Russian mafia.\nHe fears for his life after hearing of his fellow oligarch\'s fate, and pleads with Perry to turn the USB stick over to British MI6 when he returns to London.\nPerry turns the information over to Hector, the investigator in charge.\nThe information provided by Dima enables Hector and his supervisor Billy to witness a meeting between the Prince and Aubrey Longrigg, a senior politician whom Hector knows is corrupt, although he has never been able to prove it.\nBilly refuses to sanction an investigation on a chance meeting.\nHector continues regardless and recruits the MacKendricks to help stage a chance encounter with Dima in France.\nThere, Dima provides all the names of the corrupt, and confirms each banker and politician involved has received £5 million each for their endorsement of the new bank, with Aubrey Longrigg receiving £10 million plus an additional £20 million for every politician or banker he personally recruited to the cause.\nDima refuses to provide the bank account numbers that would verify the corruption, until he and his family have been granted asylum in London.\nEmilion, the Prince\'s consigliere, suspects the MacKendricks and has henchman Niki intimidate them by bringing them to his rough neighbourhood.\nWhilst there, the blue-eyed assassin beats a woman and Perry attacks him in fury.\nGail is touched by her husband\'s protectiveness of others and their relationship begins to heal.\nHector reveals to the MacKendricks that he only has two men and that he has been funding the operation himself, and they plan to seize Dima and his family simultaneously after Dima has signed the accounts over to the bank.\nGail successfully retrieves Dima\'s wife and children, whilst Dima kills Niki before Perry can find him and bring him to safety.\nWhilst at the airport with the family about to board a charter plane back to London, Billy calls Hector and informs him that Aubrey Longrigg has convinced the Home Office the family be denied asylum.\nWith their plan thwarted, Hector must return to London alone.\nThe MacKendricks refuse to leave Dima and the family until the asylum is granted and they are safe in London.\nGiven the MacKendricks\' involvement, Hector sends everyone to a safehouse in the French Alps.\nWhile there, Dima\'s daughter blows their cover by calling one of Dima\'s bodyguards, Andre, by whom she is pregnant.\nAndre traces the location of the call and the blue-eyed assassin leads an attack on the safehouse, but it is fended off by Dima and the agents.\nDima chases the blue-eyed assassin into the woods, but is ambushed and almost beaten to death before Perry arrives and kills the assassin.\nMeanwhile, Hector has returned to London and attempted to convince the UK Treasury Office that the Prince\'s bank is a cover to launder billions of dirty Russian mafia money in London.\nHe succeeds, but for asylum to be granted to Dima and his family, he must provide proof in the form of all the account numbers and names of the corrupt UK politicians and bankers involved in endorsing the bank - the detail that Dima still has in his head.\nA deal is made that Dima must be sent onto London first via helicopter, with his family to follow once the account information he has memorised has been verified.\nThe attack at the safe house and his wife\'s insistence convinces Dima to go on ahead and Perry volunteers to accompany him.\nThe family and Gail are driven to another safe house while Dima, Perry and Hector\'s agent head to the helicopter rendezvous location.\nAt the last minute, Dima insists Perry not come with him on the helicopter.\nAs Perry watches the helicopter take off it explodes over the Alps, killing Dima and Hector\'s agent and devastating the MacKendricks and Hector.\nAll is lost.\nThe mafia bank opens in London and begins trading at massive profit; Aubrey Longrigg is announced as the new Minister of State for Trade and Investment.\nDima\'s family receives asylum after all, arranged by Hector as compensation for Dima\'s murder while under his protection.\nPerry visits Hector at home and gives him a gift from Dima, a box containing the ornate pistol that the Prince had given Dima upon the signing of the accounts.\nAfter Perry leaves, Hector finds a tiny roll of paper addressed to him from Dima with the list of all the corrupt Britons\' names and account numbers hidden in the pistol\'s chamber.Our Kind of Traitor (film): As part of a plan to launder billions of dollars in London, "the Prince" – the head of the Russian Mafia – creates a new bank and has its financial oligarchs sign over their accounts to him.
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  At seven o'clock of a Caribbean morning, on the island of Antigua, one Peregrine Makepiece, otherwise known as Perry, an all-round amateur athlete of distinction and until recently tutor in English literature at a distinguished Oxford college, played three sets of tennis against a muscular, stiff-backed, bald, brown-eyed Russian man of dignified bearing in his middle fifties called Dima. How this match came about was quickly the subject of intense examination by British agents professionally disposed against the workings of chance. Yet the events leading up to it were on Perry's side blameless.
  The dawning of his thirtieth birthday three months previously had triggered a life-change in him that had been building up for a year or more without his being aware of it. Seated head in hands at eight o'clock in the morning in his modest Oxford rooms, after a seven-mile run that had done nothing to ease his sense of calamity, he had searched his soul to know just what the first third of his natural life had achieved, apart from providing him with an excuse for not engaging in the world beyond the city's dreaming spires.
  To any outward eye, his was the ultimate academic success story. The State-educated son of secondary-school teachers arrives in Oxford from London University laden with academic honours and takes up a three-year post awarded him by an ancient, rich, achievement-driven college. His first name, traditionally the property of the English upper classes, derives from a rabble-rousing Methodist prelate of the nineteenth century named Arthur Peregrine of Huddersfield.
  In the term-time, when he isn't teaching, he distinguishes himself as a cross-country runner and sportsman. On his spare evenings he helps out in a local youth club. In vacations he conquers difficult peaks and Most Serious climbs. Yet when his college offers him a permanent Fellowship - or to his present soured way of thinking, imprisonment for life - he baulks.
  Last term he had delivered a series of lectures on George Orwell under the title 'A Stifled Britain?' and his rhetoric had alarmed him. Would Orwell have believed it possible that the same overfed voices which had haunted him in the 1930s, the same crippling incompetence, addiction to foreign wars and assumptions of entitlement, were happily in place in 2009?
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conversations.value: TAMARA, wife to Dima, sister to Olga, aunt to Katya and Irina: poker upright, under a wide-brimmed beekeeper's black hat.
  DIMA, husband to Tamara: his bald, racked face so sickly in its stretched smile that he might as well be dead himself, despite the presence of his beloved daughter.
  NATASHA, daughter to Dima: her long hair swept down her back in a black river, her slender body swathed in layers of shapeless black weed.
  The commentator is reciting the names of the great and good who have come to pay their respects. They include the representatives of Yemen, Libya, Panama, Dubai and Cyprus. None from Great Britain.
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conversations.value: Of the take-off, Perry also had no particular memory: only that he was thinking he should call Gail and tell her that the Eagle had Departed or some such phrase, then find himself a bus or cab, or maybe just walk into town. He was a bit hazy about where he was in relation to Belp centre, if there was one. Then he woke to Ollie standing beside him, and remembered that he had a lift back to Gail and the fatherless family in Wengen.
  The plane took off, Perry didn't wave. He watched it rise and tip sharply, because Belp Airport has a lot of hills and small mountains to contend with and pilots have to be nippy. These pilots were. A commercial charter, by the look of it.
  And there was no explosion. Or none that reached Perry's ears. Later, he wished there had been. Just the thump of a gloved fist into a punchball and a long white flash that brought the black hills rushing at him, then absolutely nothing, either to look at or to hear, until the ta-too-ta-toos of police and ambulances and fire brigades as their flashing lights began to answer the light that had gone out.
  Instrument failure is the semi-official verdict at present. Engine failure another. Laxity on the part of unnamed maintenance staff is widely touted. Poor little Belp Airport has long been the experts' whipping boy and its critics aren't sparing the rod. Ground control may also have been to blame. Two committees of experts have failed to agree. The insurers are likely to withhold payment until the cause is known. The charred corpses continue to mystify. On the face of it the two pilots were no problem: charter pilots true, but plenty of flying experience, sober fellows, both married, no trace of illegal substances or alcohol, nothing adverse in their records and their wives on neighbourly terms with one another in Harrow, where the families lived. Two tragedies, therefore, but as far as the media was concerned, only worth a day. Why on earth a former official from the British Embassy in Bogotá should have been sharing the plane of a 'dubious Russian Swiss-based minigarch', even the red-top press was at a loss to explain. Was it sex? Was it drugs? Was it arms? For want of a shred of evidence it was none of them. Terror, the great catch-all these days, has also been considered, but rejected out of hand.