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A delicate truth
Title:
A delicate truth
Author:
Le Carré, John, 1931-2020.
ISBN:
9780241965191
Publication Information:
London : Penguin Books, 2014.
Physical Description:
342 p. ; 18 cm
Abstract:
2008. A counter-terrorist operation codenamed Wildlife is mounted on the British crown colony to abduct a high-value jihadist arms buyer. So delicate is the operation that even the Foreign Office Minister's secretary is not cleared for it. Cornwall, UK, 2011. 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?
Subject:
Terrorism -- Prevention -- Fiction.
War on Terrorism, 2001-2009 -- Fiction.
Illegal arms transfers -- Fiction.
Special forces (Military science) -- Great Britain -- Fiction.
Political corruption -- Great Britain -- Fiction.
Undercover operations -- Fiction.
Suspense fiction.
Spy stories.
Summary:
2008. A counter-terrorist operation codenamed Wildlife is mounted on the British crown colony to abduct a high-value jihadist arms buyer. So delicate is the operation that even the Foreign Office Minister's secretary is not cleared for it. Cornwall, UK, 2011. 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?