A delicate truth / Terrorism War on Terrorism, 2001-2009 Illegal arms transfers Special forces (Military science) Political corruption Undercover operations
Le Carre, John, 1931-
A delicate truth / John Le Carre. - Large print ed. - Farmington Hills, Mich. : Large Print Press, 2014, c2013. - 481 p. (large print) ; 22 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 to the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing, how can he keep silent?
9781594136870 9781410458261
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.
Political fiction.
Large type books.
823/.914
A delicate truth / John Le Carre. - Large print ed. - Farmington Hills, Mich. : Large Print Press, 2014, c2013. - 481 p. (large print) ; 22 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 to the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing, how can he keep silent?
9781594136870 9781410458261
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.
Political fiction.
Large type books.
823/.914