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Delicate Truth

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Description for Delicate Truth Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 27. Weight in Grams: 328.

'With A Delicate Truth, le Carré has in a sense come home. And it's a splendid homecoming . . . the novel is the most satisfying, subtle and compelling of his recent oeuvre' The Times

A counter-terror operation, codenamed Wildlife, 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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780241965184
SKU
V9780241965184
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About John Le Carre
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 ... Read more

Reviews for Delicate Truth
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.
Ian McEwan
Telegraph
No other writer has charted - pitilessly for politicians ... Read more

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