Our Kind of Traitor by John le Carre

Picked this book up in the Toronto Pearson Airport.  I had enjoyed The Spy who Came in from the Cold, and after a long week of business travel it was time for something easy. 

The book is about a young British couple who meet a Russian mobster while on vacation in Antigua.  Unsuccessful in extricating themselves from his friendly overtures, they find themselves in the middle of a dangerous negotiation. 

What I liked most about this book was that the point of view the story was told from was very unique.  Most of the spy novels I have read follow a career spy into a new situation, or follow a new spy into his or her first escapade.  This, delightfully, did neither. While a quick plot-driven airport read, the book also paid great attention to building the characters.