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'With A Delicate Truth , le Carre has, in a sense, come home. And it's a splendid homecoming . . . Satisfying, subtle and 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, 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. Three years later, when the horrifying truth behind Operation Wildlife is uncovered, Toby will be forced to 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? 'A brilliant climax, with sinister deaths, casual torture, wrecked lives and 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 McEwan
About the author
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 trilogy,
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy,
The Honourable Schoolboy and
Smiley'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. His posthumous novel,
Silverview, was published in 2021.
Summary
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, and a private defence contractor who is also his close friend.
