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A Delicate Truth

Autor John Le Carre
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 19 mai 2014 – vârsta de la 18 ani
A 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?
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781594136870
ISBN-10: 1594136874
Pagini: 484
Dimensiuni: 140 x 213 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.44 kg
Ediția:Text mare
Editura: Large Print Press

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A counter-terrorist operation, code-named "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?

Notă biografică

John le Carre was born in 1931 and attended the universities of Bern and Oxford. He taught at Eton and served briefly in British Intelligence during the Cold War. For the last fifty years he has lived by his pen. He divides his time between London and Cornwall.

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Praise for A DELICATE TRUTH
"At the moment a new generation is stumbling upon his work, le Carre is still writing at something close to the top of his game.... ["A Delicate Truth"] is an elegant yet embittered indictment of extraordinary rendition, American right-wing evangelical excess and the corporatization of warfare. It has a gently flickering love story and jangling ending. And le Carre has not lost his ability to sketch, in a line or two, an entire character."--Dwight Garner, "The New York Times Magazine" (front page)
"The narrative dominoes fall with masterly precision....As ever, le Carre's prose is fluid, carrying the reader toward an inevitable yet nail-biting climax."--Olen Steinhauer, "The New York Times Book Review"
"Timelier than ever."--"The New York Times"
"Well-wrought....A sharply sketched gallery of characters."--"The Wall Street Journal"
"Le Carre is fiercely modern...a confluence of styles, voices, approaches....A novel that beckons us beyond any and all expectations."--"Washington Post"
"[L]e Carre is...at full power with a book that draws on a career's worth of literary skill and international analysis. No other writer has charted--pitilessly for politicians but thrillingly for readers--the public and secret histories of his times."--"The Guardian "(UK)
"Gorgeous writing. It's sophisticated storytelling at its very best."--"USA Today"
"A ripping, fun yarn."--"Entertainment Weekly"
"Loyalty to the crown is tested; consciences are checked; and nothing is more terrifying than, as this novel's protagonist puts it, 'a solitary decider' asking himself how on earth he talked himself into this mess."--"The Daily Beast"
"A remarkably assured touch.... [Le Carre] has maintained full control of his prodigious literary talents."--"SF Gate"
"The dirty deeds are brutal and crude. And so is the cover-up."--"The Huffington Post"
"Heady and absorbing....Joh