The Constant Gardener
by John le Carré · first published 2000
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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. 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. The plot was vaguely based on a real-life case in Kano, Nigeria. A master
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…on John le Carré's novel with the same name. If you like John le Carré adaptions, both are highly recommended! It's sad that he's gone, his novels are masterpieces, especially the later ones like the Constant Gardener in which he addressed topics that go beyond what's usual in spy novels.
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