John Le Carré

A Delicate Truth

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Produktbeschreibung

'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 Times

A 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?
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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

'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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Produktdetails

• The Penguin John le Carré Hardback Collection
• Verlag: Penguin Books UK / Penguin Classics
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 129mm x 198mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 322g
• ISBN-13: 9780241396360
• ISBN-10: 0241396360
• Artikelnr.: 59990635

Autorenporträt

John le Carré was born in 1931. For six decades, he wrote novels that came to define our age. The son of a confidence trickster, 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 12 December 2020. His posthumous novel, Silverview, was published in 2021.

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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