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'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 TimesA 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?__________________'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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