title: A Delicate Truth: A Novel
author:  John le Carr&eacute; 
description: &ldquo;At the moment a new generation is stumbling upon his work, le Carr&eacute; is still writing at something close to the top of his game&hellip;. [<i>A Delicate Truth</i>] is an elegant yet embittered indictment of extraordinary rendition, American right-wing evangelical excess and the corporatization of warfare. It has a gently flickering love story and jangling ending. And le Carr&eacute; has not lost his ability to sketch, in a line or two, an entire character.&rdquo;&mdash;Dwight Garner, <i>The New York Times Magazine</i>&#160;(front page)<br><br> &ldquo;The narrative dominoes fall with masterly precision....As ever, le Carr&eacute;&rsquo;s prose is fluid, carrying the reader toward an inevitable yet nail-biting climax.&rdquo;&mdash;Olen Steinhauer, <i>The New York Times Book Review</i><br><br> &ldquo;Timelier than ever.&rdquo;&mdash;<i>The New York Times</i><br> &#160;<br> &ldquo;Well-wrought&hellip;.A sharply sketched gallery of characters.&rdquo;&mdash;<i>The Wall Street Journal</i><br> &#160;<br> &ldquo;Le Carr&eacute; is fiercely modern&hellip;a confluence of styles, voices, approaches&hellip;.A novel that beckons us beyond any and all expectations.&rdquo;&mdash;<i>Washington Post</i><br><br> &ldquo;[L]e Carr&eacute; is...at full power with a book that draws on a career&rsquo;s worth of literary skill and international analysis. No other writer has charted&mdash;pitilessly for politicians but thrillingly for readers&mdash;the public and secret histories of his times.&rdquo;&mdash;<i>The Guardian&#160;</i>(UK)<br> &#160;<br> &ldquo;Gorgeous writing. It&rsquo;s sophisticated storytelling at its very best.&rdquo;&mdash;<i>USA Today</i><br> &#160;<br> &ldquo;A ripping, fun yarn.&rdquo;&mdash;<i>Entertainment Weekly</i><br> &#160;<br> &ldquo;Loyalty to the crown is tested; consciences are checked; and nothing is more terrifying than, as this novel&rsquo;s protagonist puts it, &lsquo;a solitary decider&rsquo; asking himself how on earth he talked himself into this mess.&rdquo;&mdash;<i>The Daily Beast</i><br> &#160;<br> &ldquo;A remarkably assured touch&hellip;. [Le Carr&eacute;] has maintained full control of his prodigious literary talents.&rdquo;&mdash;<i>SF Gate</i><br><br> &ldquo;The dirty deeds are brutal and crude. And so is the cover-up.&rdquo;&mdash;<i>The Huffington Post</i><br> &#160;<br> &ldquo;Heady and absorbing....John le Carr&eacute; remains in full command of both the craft of writing and the art of espionage.&rdquo;&mdash;<i>Christian Science Monitor</i><br> &#160;<br> &ldquo;Le Carr&eacute; further establishes himself as a master of a new, shockingly realistic kind of noir.&rdquo;&mdash;<i>Booklist</i> (Starred)<br><br> &ldquo;This is a guaranteed hair-raising cerebral fright, especially for anyone who enjoyed Robert Harris&rsquo;s <i>The Ghost</i> or who just knows his or her email account has been hacked.&rdquo;&mdash;<i>Library Journal </i>(Starred)<br><br> &ldquo;Le Carr&eacute; focuses on the moral rot and creeping terror barely concealed by the affable old-boy blather that marks the pillars of the intelligence community.&rdquo;&mdash;<i>Kirkus Reviews</i> (Starred)<br><br> &ldquo;A great story in sterling prose.&rdquo;&mdash;<i>Publishers Weekly</i><br><br> &ldquo;Le Carr&eacute; proves himself a master of character development.&rdquo;&mdash;<i>The Millions</i><br> &#160;<br> &ldquo;Another breathtakingly good work&hellip;. [the] story hurtles along with the speed of light.&rdquo;&mdash;<i>Newsday</i><br><br> &ldquo;The upper register of a great writer&rsquo;s oeuvre. Knowledge is not power in the novel: John le Carr&eacute; believes that truth, difficult and generous on its own, can also kill you.&rdquo;&mdash;<i>St. Louis Post-Dispatch</i><br> &#160;<br> &ldquo;Characteristically clever.&rdquo;&mdash;<i>The Kansas City Star</i><br><br> &ldquo;Stylish, taut storytelling&hellip;.One of our finest writers.&rdquo;&mdash;<i>Tampa Bay Times</i><br> &#160;<br> &ldquo;Witty as it is insightful&hellip;.<i>A Delicate Truth</i> is a delightful read that unnerves as it entertains.&rdquo;&mdash;<i>The Columbus Dispatch</i><br> &#160;<br> &ldquo;The master storyteller, le Carr&eacute;, is still at war. His foes now are legion. But his battles, and his novels, are flooded with light and hope. He pins his faith, and that of his readers, on the fundamental decency of those most vulnerable and quirky of warriors &ndash; the average joes.&rdquo;&mdash;OregonLive.com<br><br> &ldquo;Vintage le Carr&eacute;.&rdquo;&mdash;<i>Pittsburgh Post-Gazette</i><br> &#160;<br> &ldquo;A career&rsquo;s worth of literary skill and international analysis&hellip;..No other writer has chartered&hellip;the public and secret history of his times.&rdquo;&mdash;<i>The Guardian</i> (UK)<br><br> &ldquo;Remarkable&hellip;.[<i>A Delicate Truth</i>] displays the mastery of the early and the passion of late Le Carr&eacute;.&rdquo;&mdash;Robert McCrum, <i>The Observer</i> (UK)<br><br> &ldquo;Writing of such quality that&hellip;it will be read in one hundred years&hellip;.[Le Carr&eacute;] found his canvas in espionage, as Dickens did in other worlds. The two men deserve comparison.&rdquo;&mdash;<i>Daily Mail </i>(UK)<br><br> &ldquo;The tension ratchets up superbly as revelation follows on revelation&hellip;.[Le Carr&eacute;] is a writer of towering gifts, whose fiction appeals to a reading public both popular and serious&hellip;.A talent to provoke as well as unsettle.&rdquo;&mdash;<i>The Independent </i>(UK)
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  ## PRAISE FOR JOHN LE CARRÉ
  
  
  “He is one of the half-dozen best novelists now working in English.”
  
  
  —Chicago Sun-Times
  
  
  “A brilliant linguistic artist with a keen eye for the exotic and not-so-
  exotic locale, a crafty moralizer with an occasional bent for sentiment.”
  
  
  —The Wall Street Journal
  
  
  “No other contemporary novelist has more durably enjoyed the twin badges of
  being both well-read and well-regarded.”
  
  
  —Scott Turow
  
  
  “Le Carré has a great talent for entangling his audience in the sticky tape of
  complexity, paradox, and irony, and much of the pleasure in his stories is
  following the same dense, dark path as his characters.”
  
  
  —Daily News (New York)
  
  
  “For my money, le Carré is the equal of any novelist now writing in English.”
  
  
  —Guardian (U.K.)
  
  
  “Le Carré is one of the best novelists—of any kind—we have.”
  
  
  —Vanity Fair
  
  
  AND PRAISE FOR HIS BESTSELLING THRILLERS
  
  
  THE CONSTANT GARDENER
  
  
  “His best book since The Spy Who Came In from the Cold. . . . Amazingly