'The Departed' writer William Monahan to adapt John Le Carre's 'A Delicate Truth'

There has never been a shortage of filmmakers eager to adapt the many works of espionage author John Le Carre. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and The Constant Gardener (which made my top 20 of the prior decade) are two great adaptations, while A Most Wanted Man and Our Kind of Traitor are on the way. And now  Le Carre's upcoming novel, A Delicate Truth, is being brought to the big screen with William Monahan (The Departed) penning the screenplay.

Due to come out in a couple of weeks, A Delicate Truth sounds like classic Le Carre, at least according to the book synopsis....

 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?

Counter-terrorism, secret government operations, and international intrigue? Yep, that's Le Carre for ya. Monahan, who recently pitched in on the script for Oblivion, also has Sin City: A Dame to Kill For coming up this fall.