The Constant Gardener by John Le Carré, Hodder & Stoughton,
£16.99, ISBN 0340733373
A BRITISH diplomat’s white, young, beautiful, passionate wife is murdered
outside Nairobi. Her putative lover, a black doctor, goes missing. As the story
unfolds in John Le Carré’s latest thriller, The Constant Gardener,
it becomes clear that the young wife, Tessa, may not have been the victim of
casual violence, but rather the target of an evil pharmaceuticals company that
didn’t appreciate her meddling.
The tale is furnished with the usual incompetents from Scotland Yard, a
malicious businessman here and there, and upper-crusty English gentlemen. But it…
