The Constant Gardener
Author : John Le Carré
Publisher : Scribner
ISBN : 9780743262439
Call Number : F LEC
Summary:
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 novel opens in northern Kenya with the gruesome murder of Tessa Quayle—young, beautiful, and dearly beloved to husband Justin. When Justin sets out on a personal odyssey to uncover the mystery of her death, what he finds could make him not only a suspect among his own colleagues but a target for Tessa’s killers as well.
A master chronicler of the betrayals of brave yet ordinary people caught in political conflict, John le Carré portrays the dark side of unbridled capitalism. In The Constant Gardener he tells a compelling, complex story of a man elevated through tragedy, as Justin Quayle—amateur gardener, aging widower, and ineffectual bureaucrat—discovers his own natural resources and the extraordinary courage of the woman he had too little time to love.