A Delicate Truth
Autor John le Carréen Limba Engleză Paperback – 9 apr 2014
A counter-terror operation, codenamedWildlife, is being mounted in Britain's most precious colony, Gibraltar. Its purpose: to capture and abduct a high-value jihadist arms-buyer. So delicate is the operation that even the Minister's 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 Probyn's 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 nothing, how can he keep silent?
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'No other writer has charted - pitilessly for politicians but thrillingly for readers - the public and secret histories of his times,from the Second World War to the 'War on Terror''Guardian
'The master of the modern spy novel returns . . .John le Carré was never a spy-turned-writer, he was a writer who found his canvas in espionage'Daily Mail
'A brilliant climax,withsinister deaths, casual torture, wrecked livesandshameful compromises'Observer
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780241965184
ISBN-10: 0241965187
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.33 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0241965187
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.33 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Notă biografică
John
le
Carré
was
born
in
1931.
For
six
decades,
he
wrote
novels
that
came
to
define
our
age.
The
son
of
a
confidence
trickster,
he
spent
his
childhood
between
boarding
school
and
the
London
underworld.
At
sixteen
he
found
refuge
at
the
university
of
Bern,
then
later
at
Oxford.
A
spell
of
teaching
at
Eton
led
him
to
a
short
career
in
British
Intelligence
(MI5&6).
He
published
his
debut
novel,Call
for
the
Dead,
in
1961
while
still
a
secret
servant.
His
third
novel,The
Spy
Who
Came
in
from
the
Cold,
secured
him
a
worldwide
reputation,
which
was
consolidated
by
the
acclaim
for
his
trilogyTinker
Tailor
Soldier
Spy,The
Honourable
SchoolboyandSmiley's
People.
At
the
end
of
the
Cold
War,
le
Carré
widened
his
scope
to
explore
an
international
landscape
including
the
arms
trade
and
the
War
on
Terror.
His
memoir,The
Pigeon
Tunnel,
was
published
in
2016
and
the
last
George
Smiley
novel,A
Legacy
of
Spies,
appeared
in
2017.
He
died
on
12
December
2020.
Recenzii
Perhaps
the
most
significant
novelist
of
the
second
half
of
the
20th
century
in
Britain
.
.
.
He
should
have
won
the
Booker
Prize
a
long
time
ago.
It's
time
he
won
it
and
it's
time
he
accepted
it.
He's
in
the
first
rank.
No other writer has charted - pitilessly for politicians but thrillingly for readers - the public and secret histories of his times, from the Second World War to the "War on Terror"
One of those writers who will be read a century from now
WithA Delicate Truth, le Carré has in a sense come home. And it's a splendid homecoming . . . Satisfying, subtle and compelling
The perfectly paced, exquisitely cynical style that is le Carré's hallmark
The master of the modern spy novel returns . . . this is writing of such quality that - as Robert Harris put it - it will be read in one hundred years
A brilliant climax, with sinister deaths, casual torture, wrecked lives and shameful compromises
A writer of towering gifts . . . le Carré is one of the great analysts of the contemporary scene, who has a talent to provoke as well as unsettle
John le Carré takes us back to his favourite scenarios: Whitehall, the secret services, the gentleman's clubs, dodgy bankers, corrupt public schoolboys and gruesome American neo-cons . . . revelling once more in that imaginary world of secrets and lies that is le Carré's gift to us
Thrilling, suspenseful . . . Fans will not be disappointed
Utterly convincing characters, a tight plot . . . Wonderful
Thrilling
Choreographed with unsettling precision
When I was under house arrest I was helped by the books of John le Carré ... 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
Plunges the reader into a modern-day thriller...Dad won't be able to put it down
[It] has all the essential ingredients of his masterpieces: the dilemmas of duty, patriotism and decency
John Le Carré at his masterful best . . .nobody does it better
Widely hailed as a return to the good old Smiley days . . .le Carré writes with laconic elegance
No other writer has charted - pitilessly for politicians but thrillingly for readers - the public and secret histories of his times, from the Second World War to the "War on Terror"
One of those writers who will be read a century from now
WithA Delicate Truth, le Carré has in a sense come home. And it's a splendid homecoming . . . Satisfying, subtle and compelling
The perfectly paced, exquisitely cynical style that is le Carré's hallmark
The master of the modern spy novel returns . . . this is writing of such quality that - as Robert Harris put it - it will be read in one hundred years
A brilliant climax, with sinister deaths, casual torture, wrecked lives and shameful compromises
A writer of towering gifts . . . le Carré is one of the great analysts of the contemporary scene, who has a talent to provoke as well as unsettle
John le Carré takes us back to his favourite scenarios: Whitehall, the secret services, the gentleman's clubs, dodgy bankers, corrupt public schoolboys and gruesome American neo-cons . . . revelling once more in that imaginary world of secrets and lies that is le Carré's gift to us
Thrilling, suspenseful . . . Fans will not be disappointed
Utterly convincing characters, a tight plot . . . Wonderful
Thrilling
Choreographed with unsettling precision
When I was under house arrest I was helped by the books of John le Carré ... 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
Plunges the reader into a modern-day thriller...Dad won't be able to put it down
[It] has all the essential ingredients of his masterpieces: the dilemmas of duty, patriotism and decency
John Le Carré at his masterful best . . .nobody does it better
Widely hailed as a return to the good old Smiley days . . .le Carré writes with laconic elegance