It involves a tense face-off of competing moral and ethical dilemmas. A delicate operation, to deal with a high-value jihadist arms buyer, is put into effect with only a three-man team to pull it off. The mission is completed, but was it the success everyone claims, or did something go horribly wrong? John le Carré's latest thriller is a nail-biter that raises the question: Is it sometimes right to do the wrong thing? And what if that means that people (maybe yourself) will be killed? You can read the Monitor's full review of this book here.
