A Delicate Truth: A Novel
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.53 (778 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1611761751 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 308 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-12-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Political immorality exposed" according to David. This is a breathtaking novel. Once you have gone through the opening scene of an attempt by British secret service personnel, along with American security firm operatives, on Gibraltar, using the code, “Operation Wildlife”, to exfiltrate a terrorist known to be coming ashore, and learn that the ‘lift’ has been successful, we then learn that the operation was a disaster, and has been covered up by government.We then go back in time to follow one Toby Bell, an employee in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office who starts to suspect the cover-up by his employers, which resulted in the. "The shadowy web of government and corporations in the war on terror" according to Stephen M. Smits. At one time I thought "what will LeCarre write about after the Cold War ended?" Well, he's found a lot of themes that resonate with the political milieu of the 21st century and he's still compelling.A Delicate Truth is about a "semi off the books" undertaking to capture a terrorist (a so-called extraordinary rendition) who's been traced to Gibraltar. A British foreign office official is conscripted to observe the commando type action and report to his minister. It's a hush-hush quasi-legal plan that has implicit support of the British and American governments. Orchestrating the operation is a shadowy A. Lacks a lot of what makes Le Carre great Mario Schlosser Tis isn't a spy novel. Rather, it tells the story of a (fairly low-octane) anti terror operation gone wrong, the attempts of a faction of government to conceal that, and how a whistleblower in the British diplomatic corps tries to uncover what happened. If that sounds a lot more boring than what the Le Carre books most people probably love are about (clever spies with complex personalities trying to outsmart each other against the backdrop of global conflicts), then you get a taste of why this isn't my favorite Le Carre book by a long shot. The story lacks any kind of major plot twist, its few turning
New York Times bestselling author John le Carré (A Delicate Truth and Spy Who Came in from the Cold) was born in 1931 and attended the universities of Bern and Oxford. He divides his time between London and Cornwall. He taught at Eton and served briefly in British Intelligence during the Cold War. . For the last fi
A team of agents, led by a British foreign minister and a private defense contractor, was charged with capturing a terrorist on the island of Gibraltar. Probyn eventually teams with Toby Bell, secretary to the minister in charge of Wildfire. Three years later, a now-disgraced British agent tells the real story to retired diplomat Sir Christopher Probyn, also involved in the mission but in the dark as to what actually happened. Gone is any semblance of the notion that a government and its emissaries in the secret services could ever be on the side of the individual. HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: It’s been nearly 50 years since le Carré broke through with The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. We commented in our 2008 re
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 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?. Its authors: an ambitious Foreign Office Minister, a private defense contractor who is also his bosom friend, and a shad