A Delicate Truth: A Novel [Kindle Edition] Author: John le Carre | Language: English | ISBN:
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Download books file now A Delicate Truth: A Novel [Kindle Edition] Epub Free from with Mediafire Link Download Link 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 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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- File Size: 592 KB
- Print Length: 321 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0670014893
- Publisher: Viking Adult (May 7, 2013)
- Sold by: Penguin Group (USA) LLC
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00BC24NT4
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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When we last were blessed with a John le Carré novel, we were confronted with a question not often posed in espionage thrillers --- who is more immoral, the biggest money-launderer in Russia or a London banker? (Maybe the title will give you a clue: "Our Kind of Traitor.")
Now comes his 23rd novel, "A Delicate Truth." If you are hoping this title suggests le Carré has written about espionage that is sophisticated and civilized --- espionage as an art form --- you should leave now with your illusions intact. In these pages, the dirty deeds are brutal and crude. And so is the cover-up.
What is delicate? In these pages, most of the action occurs in England. For the first time in a le Carré novel, it's Brit against Brit. They wear good clothes and went to good schools and they sure can talk the talk --- when they speak of protecting our freedom from terrorists, they're quite moving.
So"delicate" is an irony. That cool English charm has worn thin. The bad guys? They're in the government, or were. Since the end of the Cold War, le Carré's books have been moving in this direction. It took George Bush ("The US has gone mad") and Tony Blair ("A leader who takes his country to war under false pretenses is simply not an acceptable person") to concentrate le Carré's disgust.
Thrillers may be his traditional literary category, but that no longer describes his work. The author of "A Delicate Truth" has become a moralist, enraged that the powerful commit great crimes, lie and get away with it. In essence, he's writing the books that Charles Dickens would be writing now. For that alone, I say: three cheers.
From the time le Carre wrote "Call for the Dead" in 1961 he has played the theme of moral ambiguity: good men stepping into the quagmire of murky morality in their fight against evil, resulting often in the death of innocent, naive ideologues. He chronicled the challenges against western civilization for the last five decades, delving into current events that raise moral conundrums, and the decline of British influence in the post-war decades as the UK devolved into another inconsequential European country in "Our Kind of Traitor," le Carre's last book.
In "A Delicate Truth," le Carre examines the delicate fragility of democracy, the delicate concepts of personal freedoms and equity that underlay the foundations of democracy. The author peers through the looking glass and asks the question: are the great democracies of western civilization sliding towards the same corruption of third world, developing countries, corruption in which leaders pursue power and greed with no concerns for moral ambiguity, as long as they avoid personal consequences.
Le Carre explores the potential conflicts and entanglements of the modern military and secret service use of contracting traditional services far beyond anything Eisenhower envisioned in his: beware the power of the military-industrial complex. Toby Bell is a young, rapidly rising, mid-level officer in the Foreign Service, a Private Secretary to the overly ambitious Quinn, Assistant Director of the Foreign Office. Quinn launches into a secretive operation, but keeps Toby completely isolated from the action, although he suspects an illegal operation. But his mentors tell him to stay out of the way to protect his career. The story begins with Toby breaking the law in an amateur attempt to expose Quinn.
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