Delicate Truth
John Le Carré
'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 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, with sinister deaths, casual torture, wrecked lives and shameful compromises' Observer
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Ian McEwan
Telegraph
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
One of those writers who will be read a century from now
Robert Harris With A Delicate Truth, le Carré has in a sense come home. And it's a splendid homecoming . . . Satisfying, subtle and compelling
The Times
The perfectly paced, exquisitely cynical style that is le Carré's hallmark
Sunday Times
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
Daily Mail
A brilliant climax, with sinister deaths, casual torture, wrecked lives and shameful compromises
Observer
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
Independent
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
Evening Standard
Thrilling, suspenseful . . . Fans will not be disappointed
Sunday Express
Utterly convincing characters, a tight plot . . . Wonderful
Sunday Mirror
Thrilling
Express
Choreographed with unsettling precision
Metro
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
Aung San Suu Kyi Plunges the reader into a modern-day thriller...Dad won't be able to put it down
Metro
[It] has all the essential ingredients of his masterpieces: the dilemmas of duty, patriotism and decency
Simon Sebag Montefiore
Metro 'Books of the Year'
John Le Carré at his masterful best . . . nobody does it better
Ben Macintyre
The Times 'Books of the Year'
Widely hailed as a return to the good old Smiley days . . . le Carré writes with laconic elegance
Kate Saunders
The Times 'Books of the Year'