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John le Carre's A Delicate Truth is a furiously paced story of moral dilemma bold action and unexpected love. Gibraltar 2008. A counter-terror operation codenamed Wildlife is being mounted in Britain's most precious colony. Its purpose: to capture and abduct a high-value jihadist arms-buyer. Its authors: an ambitious Foreign Office Minister and 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. Cornwall UK 2011. 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 Probyn retired British diplomat to his decaying Cornish manor
house and closely observed by Probyn's beautiful 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? When I was under house arrest I was helped by the books of John le Carre.. .they were a journey into the wider world...These were the journeys that made me feel that I was not really cut off from the rest of humankind". (Aung San Suu Kyi). "One of those writers who will be read a century from now". (Robert Harris). "If you want to know about the state of Britain today forget the Booker shortlist. Just read John le Carre's latest thriller". (Evening Standard). John le Carre was born in 1931. His third novel The Spy Who Came in from the Cold secured him a
worldwide reputation which was consolidated by the acclaim for his trilogy Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy The Honourable Schoolboy and Smiley's People. His recent novels include The Constant Gardener A Most Wanted Man and Our Kind of Traitor."
house and closely observed by Probyn's beautiful 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? When I was under house arrest I was helped by the books of John le Carre.. .they were a journey into the wider world...These were the journeys that made me feel that I was not really cut off from the rest of humankind". (Aung San Suu Kyi). "One of those writers who will be read a century from now". (Robert Harris). "If you want to know about the state of Britain today forget the Booker shortlist. Just read John le Carre's latest thriller". (Evening Standard). John le Carre was born in 1931. His third novel The Spy Who Came in from the Cold secured him a
worldwide reputation which was consolidated by the acclaim for his trilogy Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy The Honourable Schoolboy and Smiley's People. His recent novels include The Constant Gardener A Most Wanted Man and Our Kind of Traitor."
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