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, diceyintelligence, corporate wars. 2011. A disgraced Special Forces Soldier who took part in 'Wildlife' delivers amessage from the dead. The worlds of Toby Bell and Kit Probyn collide. If the onlything necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing, at what pointdo these two good men become guilty bystanders?After the phenomenal success of the 2012 film adaptation of Tinker TailorSoldier Spy - the second biggest grossing British film of the decade - A MostWanted Man, starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, is due for release in autumn2013September 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