A Delicate Truth Audiobook (Free)

A counter-terror operation, codenamed Wildlife, has been mounted in Britain’s most precious colony, Gibraltar. Its purpose: to fully capture and abduct a high-value jihadist arms-buyer. Its writers: an ambitious International Office Minister, and a private defence contractor who’s also his close friend. Therefore delicate is the procedure that actually the Minister’s Private Secretary, Toby Bell, is not cleared for this.

Suspecting a disastrous conspiracy, Toby attempts to forestall it, but can be promptly posted in regards to a Delicate Truth overseas. 3 years on, summoned by Sir Christopher Probyn, retired Uk diplomat, to his decaying Cornish manor home, and closely watched by Probyn’s girl Emily, Toby must select from his conscience and his duty to the Services.

If the thing essential for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing, how can he keep silent?

‘No other writer provides charted – pitilessly for politicians but thrillingly for readers – the public and secret histories of his times, from the second world war to the ‘war on terror” Guardian

‘The expert of the modern spy book returns . this is writing of such quality that – as Robert Harris put it – it will be read in one century. John le Carré was by no means a spy-turned-writer, he was a article writer who found his canvas in espionage, as Dickens did in various other worlds. The two men deserve assessment’ Daily Email

‘A brilliant climax, with sinister deaths, casual torture, wrecked lives and shameful compromises’ Observer

‘With A Delicate Truth, le Carré provides in a sense come home. And it’s an outstanding homecoming . . . the novel is the most satisfying, subtle and convincing of his recent oeuvre’ The Times

John le Carré was born in 1931 and attended the universities of Bern and Oxford. He taught at Eton and served briefly in English Intelligence during the Chilly War. Going back fifty years he offers resided by his pen. He divides his time taken between London and Cornwall.