A delicate truth
INITIAL_TITLE_SRCH:
A delicate truth
AUTHOR:
Le Carré, John, 1931-2020.
ISBN:
9780241965191
PUBLICATION_INFO:
London : Penguin Books, 2014.
PHYSICAL_DESC:
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. |
BIBSUMMARY:
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?