**From the New York Times bestselling author of A Legacy of Spies.
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A novel that beckons us beyond any and all expectations.--Jonathan
Yardley, The Washington Post
A counter-terrorist operation, code-named 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.
Three years later, 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 daughter, Emily, Toby
must choose between his conscience and duty to his Service. If the only
thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing, how
can he keep silent?