A Delicate Truth

The master of espionage returns with a thrilling tale of dirty tricks in the war on terror. In 2008, a counterterrorist operation aimed at the capture of a jihadist arms buyer takes place on the British crown colony of Gibraltar. It’s a joint operation involving a British foreign office minister, an American CIA operative, and a private defense contractor. It goes off without a hitch. Or does it? “Le Carré further establishes himself as a master of a new, shockingly realistic kind of noir in which right-thinking individuals who challenge the institutional order of things always lose.” —Booklist, starred review