The Constant Gardener
John LeCarre
LeCarre's latest thriller opens with the murder of Tessa Quayle near North
Kenya's Lake Turkana. Her putative African lover and companion, a doctor
with one of the aid agencies, has disappeared. Tessa's much older husband,
Justin, a career diplomat at the British High Commission in Nairobi, sets
out on a personnel odyssey in pursuit of the killers and their
motive. What he might know and what he ultimately learns will make him
suspect among his own colleagues and a target for the same ruthless
profiteers who killed his wife.
This summary is courtesy of McNaughton Books