- Terrorism, War on Terrorism, 2001-2009, Special forces (Military science), Illegal arms transfers
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.
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- contemporarynostalgic
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- Author
- John le Carré
- First published
- 2013
- Pages
- 309
- Publisher
- Viking Adult, Viking
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780670014897
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David John Moore Cornwell (19 October 1931 – 12 December 2020), better known by his pen name John le Carré was a British Irish author, best known for his espionage novels, many of which were successfully adapted for film or television. A "sophisticated, morally ambiguous writer", he is considered one of the greatest novelists of the postwar era. During the 1950s and 1960s, he worked for both the Security Service (MI5) and the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). Near the end of his life, due to his strong disapproval of Brexit, he took out Irish citizenship, which was possible due to his having an Irish grandparent. Le Carré's third novel, *The Spy Who Came in from the Cold* (1963), became an
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