A Delicate Truth / John Le Carre

Public ISBD Titre : A Delicate Truth Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : John Le Carre, Auteur Editeur : London [England] : Penguin Books Année de publication : 2014 Importance : 352 p. Format : 18.1 x 11.1 x 2.5 centimetres (0.18 kg) ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-241-96519-1 Langues : Anglais Résumé : 'With A Delicate Truth, le Carre has, in a sense, come home. And it's a splendid homecoming ...Satisfying, subtle and compelling' The Times A counter-terror operation, codenamed Wildlife, 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 behind Operation Wildlife is 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. A Delicate Truth [texte imprimé] / John Le Carre, Auteur . - London (England) : Penguin Books, 2014 . - 352 p. ; 18.1 x 11.1 x 2.5 centimetres (0.18 kg). ISBN : 978-0-241-96519-1 Langues : Anglais Résumé : 'With A Delicate Truth, le Carre has, in a sense, come home. And it's a splendid homecoming ...Satisfying, subtle and compelling' The Times A counter-terror operation, codenamed Wildlife, 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 behind Operation Wildlife is 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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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold / John Le Carre

Public ISBD Titre : The Spy Who Came in from the Cold Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : John Le Carre, Auteur ; William Boyd, Auteur Editeur : London : Penguin classics Année de publication : 2013 Importance : 240 p. Format : 24 x 16.2 x 2.5 centimetres (0.36 kg) ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-14-119453-0 Langues : Anglais Résumé : Beautiful 50th Anniversary special edition featuring archival material and with a special cover design Alec Leamas is tired. It's the 1960s, he's been out in the cold for years, spying in Berlin for his British masters, and has seen too many good agents murdered for their troubles. Now Control wants to bring him in at last - but only after one final assignment. He must travel deep into the heart of Communist Germany and betray his country, a job that he will do with his usual cynical professionalism. But when George Smiley tries to help a young woman Leamas has befriended, Leamas's mission may prove to be the worst thing he could ever have done. In le Carre's breakthrough work of 1963, the spy story is reborn as a gritty and terrible tale of men who are caught up in politics beyond their imagining. This 50th anniversary special edition features a wealth of original archival material, much of it from le Carre's own files, and from the making of the original 1965 film adaptation. "Superbly constructed, with an atmosphere of chilly hell." (J B Priestley). "The best spy story I have ever read." (Graham Greene). "The master storyteller...has lost none of his cunning." (A N Wilson). "I have re-read The Spy Who Came In From The Cold over and over again since I first encountered it in my teens, just to remind myself how extraordinary a work of fiction can be." (Malcolm Gladwell). "One of those very rare novels that changes the way you look at the world. Unflinching, highly sophisticated, superb." (William Boyd). The Spy Who Came in from the Cold [texte imprimé] / John Le Carre, Auteur ; William Boyd, Auteur . - London : Penguin classics, 2013 . - 240 p. ; 24 x 16.2 x 2.5 centimetres (0.36 kg). ISBN : 978-0-14-119453-0 Langues : Anglais Résumé : Beautiful 50th Anniversary special edition featuring archival material and with a special cover design Alec Leamas is tired. It's the 1960s, he's been out in the cold for years, spying in Berlin for his British masters, and has seen too many good agents murdered for their troubles. Now Control wants to bring him in at last - but only after one final assignment. He must travel deep into the heart of Communist Germany and betray his country, a job that he will do with his usual cynical professionalism. But when George Smiley tries to help a young woman Leamas has befriended, Leamas's mission may prove to be the worst thing he could ever have done. In le Carre's breakthrough work of 1963, the spy story is reborn as a gritty and terrible tale of men who are caught up in politics beyond their imagining. This 50th anniversary special edition features a wealth of original archival material, much of it from le Carre's own files, and from the making of the original 1965 film adaptation. "Superbly constructed, with an atmosphere of chilly hell." (J B Priestley). "The best spy story I have ever read." (Graham Greene). "The master storyteller...has lost none of his cunning." (A N Wilson). "I have re-read The Spy Who Came In From The Cold over and over again since I first encountered it in my teens, just to remind myself how extraordinary a work of fiction can be." (Malcolm Gladwell). "One of those very rare novels that changes the way you look at the world. Unflinching, highly sophisticated, superb." (William Boyd).

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