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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 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. His eighteenth novel is also the profoundly moving story of a man whom tragedy elevates. 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.
The Constant Gardener is a magnificent exploration of the new world order by one of the most compelling and elegant storytellers of our time.
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John le Carré, British, Fiction, Novel, Corrupt practices, Corporations, International, Business, Enterprises, Pharmeceutical, Jungle, Scandal, Murder, Investigation, Her Majesty's Foreign Service, British Missions, British Diplomatic and consular service, International business enterprises, Spanish language materials, Empresas internacionales, Novela, Prácticas ilegales, Fiction, general, Fiction, thrillers, espionage, Kenya, fiction, Women lawyers, fiction, Fiction, thrillers, general, Large type books, Modern Literature, EspionagePeople
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London, Essex, Lake Turkana, Sibiloi National Park, Nairobi, Kenya, Nigeria, South Sudan, LokichoggioTimes
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The Constant Gardener: A Novel
August 9, 2005, Scribner
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The Constant Gardener: A Novel
July 26, 2005, Pocket Star
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El Jardinero Fiel / The Constant Gardener
2002, Random House Mondadori, S.A. (Debolsillo)
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November 1, 2001, Pocket
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The Constant Gardener
2001, Penguin Books published by the Penquin Group
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