2008. A covert counter terror operation codenamed 'Wildlife' to be mounted on the Rock-of-Gibraltar. This one is right off the books. The target codenamed 'PUNTER'. Our boys on land, the American mercenaries by sea. Kit Probyn, Foreign Office veteran with a safe pair of hands and no previous experience of the dark arts, to be the Minister's eyes and ears on the ground. His 'red telephone'. Toby Bell, rising Foreign Office star and the Minister's Personal Private Secretary, has been kept out of the loop. Why? Whispers of private armies, bounty, dicey
intelligence, corporate wars. 2011. A disgraced Special Forces Soldier who took part in 'Wildlife' delivers a
message from the dead. The worlds of Toby Bell and Kit Probyn collide. If the only
thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing, at what point
do these two good men become guilty bystanders?
After the phenomenal success of the 2012 film adaptation of Tinker Tailor
Soldier Spy - the second biggest grossing British film of the decade - A Most
Wanted Man, starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, is due for release in autumn
2013
September marks the 50th anniversary of The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
- 2013 will be a major year for le Carré's novels and films