A Delicate Truth By John Le Carre (Paperback, 2006)

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' With A Delicate Truth le Carre has in a sense come home & it's a splendid homecoming Satisfying subtle & compelling' The Times A counter-terror operation codenamed Wildlife is being mounted in Britain's most precious colony Gibraltar Its purpose to capture a high-value jihadist arms-buyer Its authors an ambitious Foreign Office Minister & a private defence contractor who is also his close friend So delicate is the operation that even the Minister's Private Secretary Toby Bell is not cleared for it Three years later when the horrifying truth behind Operation Wildlife is uncovered Toby will be forced to choose between his conscience & his duty to the Service If the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing how can he keep silent?'A brilliant climax with sinister deaths casual torture wrecked lives & shameful compromises' Observer' This is writing of such quality that
- as Robert Harris put it
- it will be read in one hundred years' Daily Mail' Perhaps the most significant novelist of the second half of the twentieth century in Britain' Ian Mc Ewan