'The book breathes life,anger and excitement'ObserverTessa Quayle,a brilliant and beautiful young social activist,has been found brutally murdered by Lake Turkana in Nairobi. The rumours are that she was faithless,careless,but her husband Justin,a reserved,garden-loving British diplomat,refuses to believe them. As he sets out to discover what really happened to Tessa,he unearths a conspiracy more disturbing,and more deadly,than he could ever have imagined.A blistering exposé of global corruption,The Constant Gardener is also the moving portrayal of a man searching for justice for the woman he has barely had time to love.'A cracking thriller'Economist
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780241322307Number of pages: 560Weight: 383 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 24 mm
John le Carré
One of the greatest spy novelists of all time,John le Carré was born in 1931. His third novel,The Spy Who Came in from the Cold,secured him a worldwide reputation,which was consolidated by the acclaim for his trilogy Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Honourable Schoolboy and Smiley's People all featuring his most famous character,George Smiley,the quintessential Cold War operative. An antidote to Fleming's racier James Bond,Smiley is cool,thoughtful,somewhat academic and (superficially) "breathtakingly normal"with a somewhat ambivalent attitude to the Service and its efficacy. His other novels,thrillers which range widely covering variously political issues of the arms trade,modern conflict and drug-trafficking,include: A Most Wanted Man,Our Kind of Traitor,A Delicate Truth and the recently adapted The Night Manager. His only work of non-fiction,The Pigeon Tunnel,was a Number One bestseller in 2016.
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