Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "A Delicate Truth is a 2013 spy novel by John le Carré. Set in 2011, the book flashes back to a 2008 joint American-British covert mission on the Rock of Gibraltar and the consequences for two British civil servants.Le Carré describes this as not only his most British novel but also his most autobiographical work in years. The author told The Daily Telegraph that he has based two of the book's characters on himself. Le Carré sees Toby Bell as the "thirty-something rising star of Her Majesty's Foreign Service, [...] the striving ambitious fellow I fancy myself to have been at much the same age." Whereas Sir Christopher ("Kit") Probyn, "is a retired Foreign Office civil servant, who lives in rural Cornwall," – the author "has lived in a clifftop house outside St Buryan, near Land's End, for more than 40 years.""@en }
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- A_Delicate_Truth abstract "A Delicate Truth is a 2013 spy novel by John le Carré. Set in 2011, the book flashes back to a 2008 joint American-British covert mission on the Rock of Gibraltar and the consequences for two British civil servants.Le Carré describes this as not only his most British novel but also his most autobiographical work in years. The author told The Daily Telegraph that he has based two of the book's characters on himself. Le Carré sees Toby Bell as the "thirty-something rising star of Her Majesty's Foreign Service, [...] the striving ambitious fellow I fancy myself to have been at much the same age." Whereas Sir Christopher ("Kit") Probyn, "is a retired Foreign Office civil servant, who lives in rural Cornwall," – the author "has lived in a clifftop house outside St Buryan, near Land's End, for more than 40 years."".