As the novel opens, Sandy Woodrow, Head of Chancery at the British High Commission in Nairobi, has been eyeing Justin’s wife, Tessa, who is described as being young and free-spirited. The plot of the novel is loosely based on a series of real-life events occurring in Kano, Nigeria. Believing there is more to the murder than what the police are letting on, Justin takes it upon himself to uncover the truth, unraveling an international conspiracy involving corrupt bureaucracy and pharmaceutical money in the process. The novel centers on British diplomat Justin Quayle, stationed in Nairobi, Kenya, whose activist wife, Tessa, is murdered. The Constant Gardener is a magnificent exploration of the new world order by one of the most compelling and elegant storytellers of our time.The Constant Gardener by British author John le Carré was originally published in 2001 and made into a feature film in 2005. 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. His eighteenth novel is also the profoundly moving story of a man whom tragedy elevates. The plot was vaguely based on a real-life case in Kano, Nigeria.Ī master chronicler of the deceptions and betrayals of ordinary people caught in political conflict, le Carré portrays, in The Constant Gardener, the dark side of unbridled capitalism. 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. Her putative African lover and traveling companion, a doctor with one of the aid agencies, has vanished from the scene of the crime.
Frightening, heartbreaking, and exquisitely calibrated, John le Carré'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.
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