Book description
Frightening, heartbreaking and exquisitely calibrated, John le
Carré's new novel opens with the gruesome murder of the young and
beautiful Tessa Quayle near Lake Turkana in Northern Kenya, the
birthplace of mankind. Her putative African novel and travelling
companion, a doctor with one of the aid agencies, has vanished from
the scene of the crime.
Tessa's husband, Justin, a career diplomat and amateur gardener at
the British High Commission in Nairobi, sets out on a personal odyssey
in pursuit of the killers and their motive. His quest takes him to the
Foreign Office in London, across Europe and Canada and back to Africa,
to the depths of South Sudan, and finally to the very spot where Tessa
died. On his way he meets terror, violence, laughter, conspiracy and
knowledge. But his greatest discovery is the woman he barely had time
to love.
THE CONSTANT GARDENER is a profoundly moving story of a man
ennobled by tragedy, and a magnificent exploration of the dark side of
unbridled capitalism by one of the most compelling and elegant
storytellers of our time. It takes its place effortlessly among the
very best of le Carré's work.
