A DELICATE TRUTH [SIGNED]
by Le Carre, John
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0670014893
- ISBN 13
- 9780670014897
- Seller
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Rockville, Maryland, United States
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Synopsis
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. Three years later, a disgraced Special Forces Soldier delivers a message from the dead. Was Operation Wildlife the success it was cracked up to beor 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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- Bookseller
- Second Story Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1354259
- Title
- A DELICATE TRUTH [SIGNED]
- Author
- Le Carre, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0670014893
- ISBN 13
- 9780670014897
- Publisher
- The Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2013
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