Le Carre, John
Constant gardener a novel The constant gardener John le Carre - New York : Scribner, c2001. - 699 p. ; Hardback 25 cm.
The novel opens in northern Kenya with the gruesome murder of Tessa Quayle -- young, beautiful, and dearly beloved to husband Justin. 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.
A master chronicler of the betrayals of ordinary people caught in political conflict, John le Carré portrays the dark side of unbridled capitalism as only he can. 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.
9780743215565 0743215567 (large print) :
International business enterprises--Corrupt practices--Fiction.
Corporations--Corrupt practices--Fiction.
Large type books.
LeC 38
Constant gardener a novel The constant gardener John le Carre - New York : Scribner, c2001. - 699 p. ; Hardback 25 cm.
The novel opens in northern Kenya with the gruesome murder of Tessa Quayle -- young, beautiful, and dearly beloved to husband Justin. 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.
A master chronicler of the betrayals of ordinary people caught in political conflict, John le Carré portrays the dark side of unbridled capitalism as only he can. 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.
9780743215565 0743215567 (large print) :
International business enterprises--Corrupt practices--Fiction.
Corporations--Corrupt practices--Fiction.
Large type books.
LeC 38