Epress.am News from Armenia
The main themes of John Le Carré‘s new novel are international money laundering schemes, the London plutocracy and the impunity of Russian oligarchs.
When reading the novel it becomes apparent that Le Carré doesn’t believe that “money doesn’t smell.”
“It stinks of drug trafficking, weapons, assassinations, violence and rampant corruption. And I think the banks are largely responsible for the international money laundering. Much more troubling is the case in Russia, where there is no clean money,” he said in an interview with Spanish paper El País.
The very system of special services is based on “black money. It’s how you get your salary, it’s inevitable,” he said. For this reason, in all countries there is a marriage between crime and intelligence: “in Russia, the marriage is complete.”
“The Russia of Vladimir Putin is a criminal state… It is a nation with no democratic experience. It [democracy] is suspect. There are two things that bind Russians: they love their country and they fear the chaos,” said Le Carré.
Le Carré‘s book is called Our Kind of Traitor and is on sale now.