A delicate truth /
Le Carre, John, 1931-
A delicate truth / - 309 pages ; 24 cm
2008. 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. Cornwall, UK, 2011. 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 beautiful 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?
9780670014897 0670014893 067092279X 9780670922796 9780241965177 0241965179
2013001536
GBB2C2342 bnb
016225069 Uk
2001-2009
Terrorism--Prevention--Fiction.
War on Terrorism, 2001-2009--Fiction.
Illegal arms transfers--Fiction.
Special forces (Military science)--Great Britain--Fiction.
Political corruption--Great Britain--Fiction.
Undercover operations--Fiction.
Suspense fiction.
Spy stories.
Political fiction.
Fiction.
Political fiction.
Suspense fiction.
Spy stories.
Political fiction.
Thrillers (Fiction)
PR6062.E33 / D45 2013
823/.914
A delicate truth / - 309 pages ; 24 cm
2008. 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. Cornwall, UK, 2011. 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 beautiful 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?
9780670014897 0670014893 067092279X 9780670922796 9780241965177 0241965179
2013001536
GBB2C2342 bnb
016225069 Uk
2001-2009
Terrorism--Prevention--Fiction.
War on Terrorism, 2001-2009--Fiction.
Illegal arms transfers--Fiction.
Special forces (Military science)--Great Britain--Fiction.
Political corruption--Great Britain--Fiction.
Undercover operations--Fiction.
Suspense fiction.
Spy stories.
Political fiction.
Fiction.
Political fiction.
Suspense fiction.
Spy stories.
Political fiction.
Thrillers (Fiction)
PR6062.E33 / D45 2013
823/.914