A counter-terror operation, codenamed Wildlife, has been mounted in Britain’s most valuable colony, Gibraltar. Its purpose: to fully capture and abduct a high-value jihadist arms-buyer. Its writers: an ambitious Foreign Office Minister, and a private defence contractor who is also his close friend. Therefore delicate is the operation that also the Minister’s Personal Secretary, Toby Bell, isn’t cleared for this.

Suspecting a disastrous conspiracy, Toby attempts to forestall it, but is certainly promptly posted in regards to a Delicate Truth overseas. Three years on, summoned by Sir Christopher Probyn, retired Uk diplomat, to his decaying Cornish manor house, and closely watched by Probyn’s girl Emily, Toby must select from his conscience and his duty to the Service.

If the thing essential for the triumph of bad is that good men do nothing at all, how can he keep silent?

‘No other article writer offers charted – pitilessly for politicians but thrillingly for readers – the public and secret histories of his times, from the second world war towards the ‘war on terror” Guardian

‘The get better at of the present day spy book returns . this is composing of such quality that – as Robert Harris place it – it’ll be read in one century. John le Carré was by no means a spy-turned-writer, he was a article writer who discovered his canvas in espionage, as Dickens did in various other worlds. The two men deserve assessment’ Daily Email

‘A brilliant climax, with sinister deaths, casual torture, wrecked lives and shameful compromises’ Observer

‘With A Delicate Truth, le Carré provides in a way come home. And it’s really an outstanding homecoming . . . the book is the many satisfying, subtle and convincing of his latest oeuvre’ THE DAYS

John le Carré was born in 1931 and attended the colleges of Bern and Oxford. He trained at Eton and offered briefly in United kingdom Intelligence during the Cool War. For the last fifty years he provides lived by his pencil. He divides his time between London and Cornwall.