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A Delicate Truth

Autor John le Carré
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 10 apr 2014
'WithA Delicate Truth, le Carré has, in a sense, come home. And it's a splendid homecoming . . . Satisfying, subtle and compelling'The Times
A counter-terror operation, codenamedWildlife, 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. So delicate is the operation that even the Minister's Private Secretary, Toby Bell, is not cleared for it.
Three years later, when the horrifying truth behindOperation Wildlifeis uncovered, Toby will be forced to 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?
'A brilliant climax, with sinister deaths, casual torture, wrecked lives and shameful compromises'Observer
'This is writing of such quality that - as Robert Harris put it - it will be read in one hundred years'Daily Mail
'Perhaps the most significant novelist of the second half of the twentieth century in Britain' Ian McEwan
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780241965191
ISBN-10: 0241965195
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 111 x 181 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

John le Carré was born in 1931. His third novel,The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, secured him a worldwide reputation, which was consolidated by the acclaim for his trilogyTinker Tailor Soldier Spy,The Honourable SchoolboyandSmiley's People. His recent novels includeA Most Wanted Man,Our Kind of TraitorandA Delicate Truth.

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I think he has easily burst out of being a genre writer and will be remembered as perhaps the most significant novelist of the second half of the 20th century in Britain. He will have charted our decline and recorded the nature of our bureaucracies like no one else has. But that's just been his route into some profound anxiety in the national narrative. Most writers I know think le Carré is no longer a spy writer. 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.
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"
One of those writers who will be read a century from now
WithA Delicate Truth, le Carré has in a sense come home. And it's a splendid homecoming . . . Satisfying, subtle and compelling
The perfectly paced, exquisitely cynical style that is le Carré's hallmark
The master of the modern spy novel returns . . . this is writing of such quality that - as Robert Harris put it - it will be read in one hundred years
A brilliant climax, with sinister deaths, casual torture, wrecked lives and shameful compromises
John le Carré has lost none of his ability in skewering the murkier foibles of the British Establishment. A tale of deception, greed, betrayal and ultimately, revenge . . . it is not until the last few pages that the full three dimensions of the plot are thrillingly revealed
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
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
Tense, twisty, and driven by a melancholy insight into human motivation . . . deeply compelling
John le Carré is as recognisable a writer as Dickens or Austen, with an often-imitated but never rivalled cast of seedy spies, false lovers, public schoolboys struggling with guilt, and charming but immoral leaders of the brutal establishment . . . This is vintage le Carré and highly enjoyable
Thrilling, suspenseful . . . Fans will not be disappointed
Utterly convincing characters, a tight plot . . . Wonderful
Choreographed with unsettling precision
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
Plunges the reader into a modern-day thriller...Dad won't be able to put it down
[It] has all the essential ingredients of his masterpieces: the dilemmas of duty, patriotism and decency
John Le Carré at his masterful best . . .nobody does it better
Widely hailed as a return to the good old Smiley days . . .le Carré writes with laconic elegance