"Einer unserer großen Schriftsteller moralischer Ambiguität, ein unermüdlicher Entdecker dieses dunkel widersprüchlichen Niemandslandes. Tim Rutten, "Los Angeles Times"Vor fast fünf Jahrzehnten wurde John le Carre mit der Veröffentlichung seines dritten Romans "The Spy Who Came In from the Cold" zu einer internationalen Sensation. Sein letzter Roman "Our Kind of Traitor" gewann einstimmige kritische Anerkennung und erreichte die Bestsellerliste der "New York Times", genau wie die Oscar-nominierte Filmversion von "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" eine neue Generation in sein kühlend amorales Universum einführte. "A Delicate Truth" eröffnet 2008. Eine Gegenterroristen-Operation mit dem Codenamen Wildlife wird auf der britischen Kronkolonie Gibraltar montiert. Es ist es, einen hochwertigen dschihadistischen Waffenkäufer zu fangen und zu entführen. Es ist ein ehrgeiziger Außenminister, ein privater Verteidigungsunternehmer, der auch sein Busenfreund ist, und ein zwielichtiger amerikanischer CIA-Agent der evangelischen Rechtsextrechten. So heikel ist die Operation, dass selbst der persönliche Privatsekretär des Ministers, Toby Bell, nicht dafür freigegeben ist. Cornwall, UK, 2011. Ein schändlicher Soldat der Spezialeinheiten liefert eine Botschaft von den Toten. War Operation Wildlife der Erfolg, zu dem es geknackt wurde – oder eine menschliche Tragödie, die rücksichtslos vertuscht wurde? Von Sir Christopher ("Kit") Probyn, britischer Diplomat im Ruhestand, in sein verfallendes kornisches Herrenhaus gerufen und von Kit's schöner Tochter Emily genau beobachtet, muss Toby zwischen seinem Gewissen und seiner Pflicht zu seinem Dienst wählen. Wenn das einzige, was für den Triumph des Bösen notwendig ist, dass gute Männer nichts tun, wie kann er dann schweigen?
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Hardback. Zustand: Good. From the New York Times bestselling author of A Legacy of Spies. John le Carr 's new novel, Agent Running in the Field, is coming October 2019. 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? Artikel-Nr. 00110397819
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Hardback. Zustand: Fair. From the New York Times bestselling author of A Legacy of Spies. John le Carr 's new novel, Agent Running in the Field, is coming October 2019. 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? Artikel-Nr. 00098312461
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