The Constant Gardener: John Le Carré

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The Constant Gardener: John Le Carré

The Constant Gardener: John Le Carré

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What God hath put together, let no man rend asunder -- until some men did, leaving Justin profoundly alone with his grief. And here we witness the transformation of a man of peace and contentment into one with single-minded purpose, embarking on a journey to do honor to his wife. The plot was based on a real-life case in Kano, Nigeria. The book was adapted into a feature film in 2005. Note: The Constant Gardener was written in 2001, well before so much of the US was victimized by the opioid crisis unleashed by real world Big Pharma. The setting was different, but the greed and the human costs were uncannily similar, and the comparison was continuously on the edges of my mind as I read. If the extent of the corruption in this novel sound bad le Carre lets us know in the Afterward that his novel lets his readers off easy with the details he shares:

Oh, and did I mention a love story? No, please don’t run away! Just as le Carré wrote like no other thriller or espionage writer, he most certainly did not toe the line when it came to writing ‘romance’. It’s brilliant that one half of this love affair is kept off-screen, if you will, for the entirety of the novel’s length. Yet the presence and the immediacy of it all are right there. Tessa and Justin might seem like an unlikely couple, yet I wholly believed it; le Carré showed me that it is all so true. Even when the rest of the characters pointed out what they felt were inconsistencies, I had faith in the fact I would be shown over time just what this unconventional relationship was all about. From the carpeted sanctuary of the Private Office, Mildren slowly read aloud to the blank-voiced young man on the other end of the line:Another sweltering month in Charlotte, another boatload of mysteries past and present for overworked, overstressed forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan. Drugs have got to be tried on somebody, haven't they?”If I had to come up with just one word to describe this genre-defying book, it would be “angry”. Or maybe two words - angry and disillusioned. Or, if you want a third, then angry, disillusioned and bleak. And that’s where its strength is. in the real world, we don't hear of pharmaceutical whistle-blowers being murdered, and there have been several whistle-blowers recently. Ghita, this one’s strictly for you, OK?” She looked at him steadily, waiting. “Bluhm. Dr. Arnold Bluhm. Yes?” Justin Quayle, a British diplomat and avid horticulturalist, is confronted by Amnesty International activist Tessa during a lecture in London. They strike up a romance, and marry after she accompanies him to his posting in Kenya, where she befriends Belgian doctor Arnold Bluhm, leading to rumors of an affair. Tessa has no qualms confronting corruption, to the chagrin of Justin's superiors, and they lose a child late in her pregnancy.

In the absence of the Evil Empire, global capitalism takes it on the chin once more in this hypertrophied whodunit, the most intimate of le Carré’s thrillers since the salad days of George Smiley.All right, she was into all that gender crap. So she should be. Give Africa to the women and the place might work.” They knew, Woodrow told himself in fury as he returned downstairs. They knew before I did that she was dead. But that’s what they want you to believe: we spies know more about everything than you do, and sooner.



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