
A Delicate Truth
A Novel
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John le Carré
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By:
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John le Carré
From the New York Times best-selling author of A Legacy of Spies. John le Carré’s new novel: Agent Running in the Field.
A counter-terrorist operation, code-named 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. Three years later, 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 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?
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"A novel that beckons us beyond any and all expectations." (Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post)
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The Constant Gardener redux?
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Le Carré just gets better and better
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Character is really impressive as are most all of Le carre’s novels. You need to think on this though. Not the beast to fall asleep to
Well done as usual
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Would you listen to A Delicate Truth again? Why?
First of all, he's a marvelous reader. Usually I hate it when an author wants to read his own book, but he was great. He had accents for everyone. He just couldn't do it for women though. And the story is intricate enough to deserve a second listen. But I want more too. Write faster please.He can't write his novels fast enough for me.....
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Le Carre is better than a professional actor
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This book is on target
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Continuing along the path Le Carre set 'with his recent works ("A Perfect Spy", "Absolute Friends" and "Our Kind of Traitor"), he documents the intrinsic dishonesty of spying as a profession, and the progressive corruption of Western democratic values we have witnessed over the past two or three decades. In a calm style, and with an exquisite ear for human dialogue, he leads us through a post-Gulf War world in which torture is euphemized by phrases such as "enhanced interrogation" and kidnappings which require violation of another nation's sovereign territory are obfuscated by declaring that the War on Terror requires occasional cases of "extreme rendition".
It is this world, painfully contemporary and real, in which the protagonist of "A Delicate Truth" finds himself. At one level this is a taut, well written spy story which hooks the reader and makes him want to keep reading until the last words are done, at another, it is a deep and considered account of the descent of Western democracy into a darkness which makes it increasingly difficult to distinguish it from its totalitarian and terrorist enemies.
A brilliant, realistic, and sad story by a keen observer of our twenty-first century world.
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Excellent from the master
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I was also delighted at the author's skill at reading his own work--the voices and accents were varied enough that it was easy to keep track of a fairly large cast of characters, and all the voices seemed credible, not forced.
I found John Le Carre's pacing as both author and reader impeccable.
Well-written, very nicely performed
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Master writer, master narrator
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