THE paperback of 2014 - outstanding reviews, huge coverage, le Carre's most compelling novel in years
John le Carre was born in 1931 and attended the universities of Bern and Oxford. He taught at Eton before serving in British Intelligence during the Cold War. For more than fifty years he has lived by his pen. He divides his time between London and Cornwall.
Perhaps the most significant novelist of the second half of the
20th century in Britain . . . He should have won the Booker Prize a
long time ago. It's time he won it and it's time he accepted it.
He's in the first rank. -- Ian McEwan * Telegraph *
No other writer has 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 *
One of those writers who will be read a century from now --
Robert Harris
With A Delicate Truth, le Carre has in a sense come home.
And it's a splendid homecoming . . . Satisfying, subtle and
compelling * The Times *
The perfectly paced, exquisitely cynical style that is le
Carre's hallmark * Sunday Times *
The master of the modern spy novel returns . . . this is writing
of such quality that - as Robert Harris put it - it will be read in
one hundred years * Daily Mail *
A brilliant climax, with sinister deaths, casual torture,
wrecked lives and shameful compromises * Observer *
A writer of towering gifts . . . le Carre is one of the great
analysts of the contemporary scene, who has a talent to provoke as
well as unsettle * Independent *
John le Carre takes us back to his favourite scenarios:
Whitehall, the secret services, the gentleman's clubs, dodgy
bankers, corrupt public schoolboys and gruesome American neo-cons .
. . revelling once more in that imaginary world of secrets and lies
that is le Carre's gift to us * Evening Standard *
Thrilling, suspenseful . . . Fans will not be disappointed *
Sunday Express *
Utterly convincing characters, a tight plot . . . Wonderful *
Sunday Mirror *
Thrilling * Express *
Choreographed with unsettling precision * Metro *
When I was under house arrest I was helped by the books of John le
Carre ... they were a journey into the wider world ... These were
the journeys that made me feel that I was not really cut off from
the rest of humankind -- Aung San Suu Kyi
Plunges the reader into a modern-day thriller...Dad won't be able
to put it down * Metro *
[It] has all the essential ingredients of his masterpieces: the
dilemmas of duty, patriotism and decency -- Simon Sebag Montefiore
* Metro 'Books of the Year' *
John Le Carre at his masterful best . . . nobody does it
better -- Ben Macintyre * The Times 'Books of the Year' *
Widely hailed as a return to the good old Smiley days . . . le
Carre writes with laconic elegance -- Kate Saunders * The Times
'Books of the Year' *
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