As we await our first trailer for Anton Corbijn‘s adaptation of John Le Carré‘s A Most Wanted Man, as well as Justin Kurzel’s take on Our Kind of Traitor, today is a special occasion for fans of the spy thriller author. At the age of 81, he has released his 23rd book, A Delicate Truth, in the UK and The Ink Factory have released a teaser trailer for it, coming from director Kim Gehrig.
In keeping in line with a batch of his previous works, a feature film adaptation is also already being set in place, as a press release indicates that The Departed and Kingdom of Heaven writer William Monahan is in talks with The Ink Factory and BBC Films to script the project. With the aforementioned directors, as well as Tomas Alfredson, there has been a stellar selection of helmers, so we’re confident this one will follow suit. Check out the official synopsis and cover of the novel below via Amazon, as well as the book trailer, and those in the U.S. can pick it up on May 7th.
A Delicate Truth opens in 2008. A counter-terrorist operation, codenamed Wildlife, is being mounted on the British crown colony of Gibraltar. Its purpose: to capture and abduct a high-value jihadist arms-buyer. Its authors: an ambitious Foreign Office Minister, a private defense contractor who is also his bosom friend, and a shady American CIA operative of the evangelical far-right. So delicate is the operation that even the Minister’s personal private secretary, Toby Bell, is not cleared for it.
Cornwall, UK, 2011. A disgraced Special Forces Soldier delivers a message from the dead. Was Operation Wildlife the success it was cracked up to be—or a human tragedy that was ruthlessly covered up? Summoned by Sir Christopher (“Kit”) Probyn, retired British diplomat, to his decaying Cornish manor house, and closely observed by Kit’s beautiful daughter, Emily, Toby must choose between his conscience and duty to his Service. If the only thing necessary to the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing, how can he keep silent?
If you’re in the UK, have you picked up the book? Who would you like to see direct the feature film?