More specifically, le Carré shines a light on big pharmaceutical companies and their dealings within the African continent. This book delves into corporate politics and the corruption and abuse of power by first world countries meddling with emerging nations. Having read this, I now believe that he could have written any sort of novel and would have captured my attention and merited my highest regard.
The Constant Gardener deviates a bit from what I’m accustomed to from this author. I’ve read several of le Carré’s espionage novels over the past two years. However, if thrillers were all written in the style of John le Carré, I would happily join the ranks of the true addicts! I can get on board with a smart, literary thriller.
I'm a characters, reflective reading kind of gal. I'm not typically drawn to fast-paced action in my reading life. As long as you’re happy with them, my opinion counts for diddly-squat. I apologize to my thriller-loving friends.
I hate to say it, but I’m not a big fan of thrillers. “She had witnessed a monstrous injustice and gone out to fight it. In The Constant Gardener he tells a compelling, complex story of a man elevated through tragedy as Justin Quayle-amateur gardener, aging widower, and ineffectual bureaucrat-discovers his own natural resources, and the extraordinary courage of the woman he barely had time to love. When Justin sets out on a personal odyssey to uncover the mystery of her death, what he finds could make him not only a suspect among his own colleagues, but a target for Tessa's killers as well.Ī master chronicler of the betrayals of ordinary people caught in political conflict, John le Carre portrays the dark side of unbridled capitalism as only he can. The novel opens in northern Kenya with the gruesome murder of Tessa Quayle-young, beautiful, and dearly beloved to husband Justin. The Constant Gardener is a magnificent exploration of the new world order by one of the most compelling and elegant storytellers of our time. Now a major motion picture from Fernando Meirelles, the Academy Award-nominated director of City of God
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