John Le Carré

A Delicate Truth

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Produktbeschreibung

From the acclaimed author of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and Our Kind of Traitor which is soon to be a motion picture starring Ewan McGregor, Naomie Harris, Stellan Skarsgård and Damian Lewis

The Pigeon Tunnel, John le Carré's first work of non-fiction, will be available from Viking in September 2016

"A novel that beckons us beyond any and all expectations."-Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin US
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. April 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 208mm x 141mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 265g
• ISBN-13: 9780143125310
• ISBN-10: 0143125311
• Artikelnr.: 39025664

Autorenporträt

John le Carré was born in 1931. For six decades, he wrote novels that came to define our age. The son of a con man, he spent his childhood between boarding school and the London underworld. At sixteen he found refuge at the university of Bern, then later at Oxford. A spell of teaching at Eton led him to a short career in British Intelligence (MI5&6). He published his debut novel, Call for the Dead, in 1961 while still a secret servant. His third novel, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, secured him a worldwide reputation, which was consolidated by the acclaim for his trilogy Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Honourable Schoolboy, and Smiley's People. At the end of the Cold War, le Carré widened his scope to explore an international landscape including the arms trade and the War on Terror. His memoir, The Pigeon Tunnel, was published in 2016 and the last George Smiley novel, A Legacy of Spies, appeared in 2017. He died on December 12, 2020.

Rezensionen

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung | Besprechung von 09.02.2014

Bücher Ein tolles Wort: "Unterflieger", es steht in John Le Carrés Roman "Empfindliche Wahrheit" (Ullstein, 394 Seiten, 24,99 Euro), den man eigentlich längst gelesen haben sollte. Es meint einen älteren, mittleren Diplomaten, der von seinem Außenminister in eine Anti-Terror-Aktion in Gibraltar verwickelt wird, die böse schiefgeht. Einen Überflieger gibt es auch, der allerdings nicht so genannt wird, auch weil seiner steilen Karriere im Ministerium der Sinkflug droht, nachdem er von der verdeckten Operation erfahren hat. Dieser junge Mann namens Toby wird zum Whistleblower, und weil wir in einem Roman von Le Carré sind, gibt es einen makellos konstruierten Plot, keinerlei Illusionen über das Treiben von Politik und Geheimdiensten und Charaktere, vor allem weibliche, die leider zu einer gewissen Blässlichkeit neigen. Le Carrés vorletzter Roman, "Marionetten", ist im Übrigen von Anton Corbijn verfilmt worden und soll im Herbst ins Kino kommen. Es ist zugleich einer der letzten Filme, in denen der große Philip Seymour Hoffman noch mitgespielt hat.

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