The Constant Gardener : A Novel - Hardcover

John Le Carre

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0733613896 ISBN 13: 9780733613890

Publisher: Hachette Livre Australia/Hodder, 2001

Synopsis

Frightening, heartbreaking, and exquisitely calibrated, John Le Carre's new novel opens with the gruesome murder of the young and beautiful Tessa Quayle near northern Kenya's Lake Turkana, the birthplace of mankind. Her putative African Lover and traveling companion, a doctor with one of the aid agencies, has vanished from the scene of the crime. Tessa's much older husband, Justin, a career diplomat at the British High Commission in Nairobi, sets out on a personal odyssey in pursuit of the killers and their motive. What he might know and what he ultimately learns make him suspect among his own colleagues and a target for the profiteers who killed his wife. A master chronicler of the deceptions and betrayals of ordinary people caught in political conflict, le Carre portrays, in "The Constant Gardner," the dark side of unbridled capitalism. His eighteenth novel is also the profoundly moving story of a man who tragedy elevates. Justin Quayle, amateur gardener and ineffectual bureaucrat, seemingly oblivious to his wife's cause, discovers his own resources and the extraordinary courage of the woman he barely had time to love. "The Constant Gardner" is a magnificent exploration of the new world order by one of the most compelling and elegant storytellers of our time.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hachette Livre Australia/Hodder
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0733613896
• ISBN 13: 9780733613890
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1