A DELICATE TRUTH

A DELICATE TRUTH

LE CARRÉ, JOHN

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Editorial:
PENGUIN BOOKS
Año de edición:
2014
Materia
Otros idiomas
ISBN:
978-0-241-96518-4
Páginas:
352
Encuadernación:
Otros
Colección:
FICTION
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u003cpu003e'With u003ciu003eA Delicate Truthu003c/iu003e, le Carré has, in a sense, come home. And it's a splendid homecoming . . . Satisfying, subtle and compelling' u003ciu003eThe Timesu003c/iu003eu003c/pu003e u003cpu003eA counter-terror operation, codenamed u003ciu003eWildlifeu003c/iu003e, 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.u003c/pu003e u003cpu003eThree years later, when the horrifying truth behind u003ciu003eOperation Wildlifeu003c/iu003e 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?u003c/pu003e u003cpu003e'A brilliant climax, with sinister deaths, casual torture, wrecked lives and shameful compromises' u003ciu003eObserveru003c/iu003eu003c/pu003e u003cpu003e'This is writing of such quality that - as Robert Harris put it - it will be read in one hundred years' u003ciu003eDaily Mailu003c/iu003eu003c/pu003e u003cpu003e'Perhaps the most significant novelist of the second half of the twentieth century in Britain' Ian McEwanu003c/pu003e

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