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THE PENGUIN JOHN LE CARRÉ HARDBACK COLLECTION ...

'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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