The Constant Gardener by Le Carre John

The Constant Gardener by Le Carre John

John le Carre's eighteenth novel is a towering achievement, taking its place effortlessly among the very best of his work

Superlatives have already been attached to so much of le Carr 's work and they are totally apt for this 18th and brilliantly crafted novelWith the greatest finesse he sets the scene: The wife of a British embassy official in Nairobi is found murdered in the bush, stripped naked and with her throat cut. Her driver has been beheaded. Embassy staff launch a damage limitation exercise because she is, in media terms, the Princess Diana of the African poor but more murkily suspected of an affair with a well-regarded black doctor in the aid community. Worse yet, he is missing and appears to be the murderer. As scandal breaks, the complexities burgeon so that the whodunit at base level becomes a journey through - and damning indictment of - the multi-national pharmaceutical jungle and the toxicity in the corridors of power. Both plot and characters ring with the connoisseur's touch. When a detective asks a Foreign Office stalwart if the murdered woman was a nympho, this is how he prevaricates: "I'm afraid that question is a little above my pay grade."

John le Carre was born in 1931. His third novel, THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD, secured him a wide reputation, which was consolidated by the acclaim for his trilogy, TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY, THE HONOURABLE SCHOOLBOY and SMILEY'S PEOPLE. His recent novels include his most autobiographical work, A PERFECT SPY, THE TAILOR OF PANAMA and SINGLE & SINGLE. THE CONSTANT GARDENER is his eighteenth novel

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ISBN 13	9780340733370
ISBN 10	0340733373
Title	The Constant Gardener
Author	John Le Carr
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Hodder & Stoughton
Year published	2001-01-04
Number of pages	512
Prizes	Winner of British Book Awards: Film & TV Book Award 2006
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