A Delicate Truth
«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
A counter-terror operation, codenamed Wildlife, 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. Les mer
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A counter-terror operation, codenamed Wildlife, 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.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 352
- ISBN
- 9780241965184
- Utgivelsesår
- 2014
- Format
- 20 x 13 cm
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«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
«One of those writers who will be read a century from now»
Robert Harris
«With A Delicate Truth, le Carré has in a sense come home. And it's a splendid homecoming . . . Satisfying, subtle and compelling»
The Times
«The perfectly paced, exquisitely cynical style that is le Carré's hallmark»
Sunday Times
«A brilliant climax, with sinister deaths, casual torture, wrecked lives and shameful compromises»
Observer
«A writer of towering gifts . . . le Carré is one of the great analysts of the contemporary scene, who has a talent to provoke as well as unsettle»
Independent
«John le Carré takes us back to his favourite scenarios: Whitehall, the secret services, the gentleman's clubs, dodgy bankers, corrupt public schoolboys and gruesome American neo-cons . . . revelling once more in that imaginary world of secrets and lies that is le Carré's gift to us»
Evening Standard
«Thrilling, suspenseful . . . Fans will not be disappointed»
Sunday Express
«Utterly convincing characters, a tight plot . . . Wonderful»
Sunday Mirror
«Thrilling»
Express
«Choreographed with unsettling precision»
Metro
«When I was under house arrest I was helped by the books of John le Carré ... they were a journey into the wider world ... These were the journeys that made me feel that I was not really cut off from the rest of humankind»
Aung San Suu Kyi
«[It] has all the essential ingredients of his masterpieces: the dilemmas of duty, patriotism and decency»
Simon Sebag Montefiore, Metro 'Books of the Year'
«John Le Carré at his masterful best . . . nobody does it better»
Ben Macintyre, The Times 'Books of the Year'
«Perhaps the most significant novelist of the second half of the 20th century in Britain . . . He should have won the Booker Prize a long time ago. It's time he won it and it's time he accepted it. He's in the first rank.»
Ian McEwan, Telegraph
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