Delicate Truth
by:
John le Carré (author)
Paperback. Pub Date :2013-04-01 Pages: 320 Language: English Publisher: Penguin UK A counter-terror operation. codenamed Wildlife. is being mounted in Britains most precious colony. Gibraltar. Its purpose: to capture and abduct a high- value jihadist arms-buyer. Its authors: an ambitious Foreign...
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Paperback. Pub Date :2013-04-01 Pages: 320 Language: English Publisher: Penguin UK A counter-terror operation. codenamed Wildlife. is being mounted in Britains most precious colony. Gibraltar. 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 Ministers Private Secretary. Toby Bell. is not cleared for it. Suspecting a disastrous conspiracy. Toby attempts to forestall it. but is promptly posted overseas. Three years on. summoned by Sir Christopher Probyn. retired British diplomat. to his decaying Cornish manor house. and closely watched by Probyns daughter Emily. Toby must choose between his conscience and his duty to the Service. If the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do n...
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780241965160 (0241965160)
Publish date: January 1st 2013
Publisher: Penguin
Edition language: English
Ah. I think I chose the wrong book. I read Daniel Silva, Donna Leon, David Baldacci...ABA thriller/suspense writers all. So I decided there was a gap in my education and picked up this John le Carre (sorry for the lack of accent) book.Because I am well aware of the great regard in which he is held, ...
I came late to John Le Carré, falling in love with his prose storytelling style upon my first encounter with them when, last year, I read his remarkable novel"A Legacy of Spies". Naturally, I had to have at least one Le Carré in my Summer of Spies reading challenge this year, I picked "A Delicate ...
Ah. I think I chose the wrong book. I read Daniel Silva, Donna Leon, David Baldacci...ABA thriller/suspense writers all. So I decided there was a gap in my education and picked up this John le Carre (sorry for the lack of accent) book.Because I am well aware of the great regard in which he is held, ...
This got a bit better as he started getting into the story. But as far as conspiracy theories goes, this just didn't ring true. Very disappointing. Three stars out of loyalty...
First rate effort from the master, capturing the zeitgeist of the present time, even the response in the United States to the current surveillance disclosures, where the Pew Research polls show the public does not care about the disappearance of the 4th Amendment rights we were taught as children. ...
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