A Delicate Truth: A Novel
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DescriptionA counter-terrorist operation, codenamed Wildlife, is being mounted on the British crown colony of Gibraltar. Its purpose: to capture and abduct a high-value jihadist arms buyer. Its authors: an ambitious Foreign Office Minister, a private defense contractor who is also his bosom friend, and a shady American CIA operative of the evangelical far-right. So delicate is the operation that even the Minister’s personal private secretary, Toby Bell, is not cleared for it. Three years later, a disgraced Special Forces Soldier delivers a message from the dead. Was Operation Wildlife the success it was cracked up to be—or a human tragedy that was ruthlessly covered up? Summoned by Sir Christopher (“Kit”) Probyn, retired British diplomat, to his decaying Cornish manor house, and closely observed by Kit’s daughter, Emily, Toby must choose between his conscience and duty to his Service. If the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing, how can he keep silent? Critic Reviewsfrom Bookreporter.com - Roz Shea John le Carré brings us a new psychological thriller that casts his cynical eye toward the Kafkaesque world of espionage, rightwing politics and bureaucracy in A DELICATE TRUTH. Operation Wildlife, a topsecret, bloodless mission to extract a dangerous jihadist weapons dealer on English soil, is put into action by the British Foreign Office under direction of a brash new Scottish Member of ... from Bookreporter.com Nearly five decades ago, John le Carré became an international sensation with the publication of his third novel, THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD. His last novel, OUR KIND OF TRAITOR, won unanimous critical acclaim and hit the New York Times bestseller list just as the Oscarnominated film version of TINKER, TAILOR, SOLIDER, SPY introduced a new generation to his chillingly amoral universe. A ... My ReviewAbout the Author |