The Constant Gardener

John le Carré 2001

Devastation Rating

Emotionally Ruined
espionage Africa pharmaceutical complicity

Our Take

Tessa Quayle is murdered investigating a pharmaceutical company's drug trials in Africa. Her husband Justin, a diplomat who looked the other way, now has to reckon with what his looking away cost. Le Carré makes corporate complicity the subject and the British Foreign Office its instrument.

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