John le Carré - The Constant Gardener

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THE CONSTANT GARDENER
THE CONSTANT GARDENER
A Novel
by JOHN LE CARRE
THE CONSTANT GARDENER
Frightening, heartbreaking, and
exquisitely calibrated, John le Carre's
new novel opens with the gruesome murder
of the young and beautiful Tessa Quayle
near northern Kenya's Lake Turkana, the
birthplace of mankind. Her putative
African lover and traveling companion, a
doctor with one of the aid agencies, has
vanished from the scene of the crime.
Tessa's much older husband, Justin, a
career diplomat at the British High
Commission in Nairobi, sets out on a
personal odyssey in pursuit of the killers
and their motive. What he might know and
what he ultimately learns make him suspect
among his own colleagues and a target for
the profiteers who killed his wife.
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THE CONSTANT GARDENER
A master chronicler of the deceptions and
betrayals of ordinary people caught in
political conflict, le Carre portrays, in
The Constant Gardener, the dark side of
unbridled capitalism. His eighteenth novel
is also the profoundly moving story of a
man whom tragedy elevates. Justin Quayle,
amateur gardener and ineffectual
bureaucrat, seemingly oblivious to his
wife's cause, discovers his own resources
and the extraordinary courage of the woman
he barely had time to love.
The Constant Gardener is a magnificent
exploration of the new world order by one
of the most compelling and elegant
storytellers of our time.
Published by: SCRIBNER. NEW YORK.
Copyright 2001 by David Cornwell
John le Carre was born in 1931. His third
novel, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold,
secured him a worldwide reputation, which
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was consolidated by the acclaim for his
trilogy Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy; The
Honorable Schoolboy; and Smiley's People.
His novels include The Little Drummer
Girl, A Perfect Spy, The Russia House, Our
Game, The Tailor of Panama, and Single and
Single. John le Carre lives in Cornwall.
PRAISE FOR JOHN LE CARRE
"Le Carre is more than just a great
storyteller. He captures the zeitgeist
itself."--TOM WOLFE
"He is one of the half-dozen best
novelists now working in English." --
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
"A brilliant linguistic artist with a
keen eye for the exotic and not-so-exotic
locale, a crafty moralizer with an
occasional bent for sentiment." --THE WALL
STREET JOURNAL
"No other contemporary novelist has more
durably enjoyed the twin badges of being
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both well read and well regarded."--SCOTT
TUROW
"Le Carre has a great talent for
entangling his audience in the sticky tape
of complexity, paradox, and irony, and
much of the pleasure in his stories is
following the same dense, dark path as his
characters."--NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
"Any reader who feared that the end of
the Cold War would deprive Mr. le Carre of
his subject can now feel a measure of
relief. If anything, his subject of East-
West misunderstanding has grown richer,
and he now possesses vast new territories
to mine."-THE NEW YORK TIMES
"He has reinvented the realistic spy
story as the supreme theater of paradox,
where heroism breeds vice, and virtue is a
quite accidental by-product of impudent
crimes."--TIME
"Le Carre is one of the best novelists--
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THE CONSTANT GARDENER
of any kind--we have."--VANITY FAIR
ALSO BY JOHN LE CARRE
CALL FOR THE DEAD
A MURDER OF QUALITY
THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD
THE LOOKING GLASS WAR
A SMALL TOWN IN GERMANY
THE NAIVE AND SENTIMENTAL LOVER
TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY
THE HONORABLE SCHOOLBOY
SMILEY'S PEOPLE
THE LITTLE DRUMMER GIRL
A PERFECT SPY
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THE CONSTANT GARDENER
THE RUSSIA HOUSE
THE SECRET PILGRIM
THE NIGHT MANAGER
OUR GAME
THE TAILOR OF PANAMA
SINGLE AND SINGLE
This book is a work of fiction. Names,
characters, places, and incidents either
are products of the author's imagination
or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance
to actual events or locales or persons,
living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
For Yvette Pierpaoli who lived and died
giving a damn
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his
grasp, Or what's a heaven for? "Andrea del
Sarto" by ROBERT BROWNING
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THE CONSTANT GARDENER
THE CONSTANT GARDENER
The news hit the British High Commission
in Nairobi at nine-thirty on a Monday
morning. Sandy Woodrow took it like a
bullet, jaw rigid, chest out, smack
through his divided English heart. He was
standing. That much he afterwards
remembered. He was standing and the
internal phone was piping. He was reaching
for something, he heard the piping so he
checked himself in order to stretch down
and fish the receiver off the desk and
say, "Woodrow." Or maybe, "Woodrow here."
And he certainly barked his name a bit, he
had that memory for sure, of his voice
sounding like someone else's, and sounding
stroppy: "Woodrow here," his own perfectly
decent name, but without the softening of
his nickname Sandy, and snapped out as if
he hated it, because the High
Commissioner's usual prayer meeting was
slated to start in thirty minutes prompt,
with Woodrow, as Head of Chancery, playing
in-house moderator to a bunch of special-
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interest prima donnas, each of whom wanted
sole possession of the High Commissioner's
heart and mind.
In short, just another bloody Monday in
late January, the hottest time in the
Nairobi year, a time of dust and water
shortages and brown grass and sore eyes
and heat ripping off the city pavements;
and the jacarandas, like everybody else,
waiting for the long rains.
Exactly why he was standing was a question
he never resolved. By rights he should
have been crouched behind his desk,
fingering his keyboard, anxiously
reviewing guidance material from London
and incomings from neighboring African
missions. Instead of which he was standing
in front of his desk and performing some
unidentified vital act--such as
straightening the photograph of his wife
Gloria and two small sons, perhaps, taken
last summer while the family was on home
leave. The High Commission stood on a
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slope, and its continuing subsidence was
enough to tilt pictures out of true after
a weekend on their own.
Or perhaps he had been squirting mosquito
spray at some Kenyan insect from which
even diplomats are not immune. There had
been a plague of "Nairobi eye" a few
months back, flies that when squidged and
rubbed accidentally on the skin could give
you boils and blisters, and even send you
blind. He had been spraying, he heard his
phone ring, he put the can down on his
desk and grabbed the receiver: also
possible, because somewhere in his later
memory there was a color-slide of a red
tin of insecticide sitting in the out tray
on his desk. So, "Woodrow here," and the
telephone jammed to his ear.
"Oh, Sandy, it's Mike Mildren. Good
morning. You alone by any chance?"
Shiny, overweight, twenty-four-year-old
Mildren, High Commissioner's private
secretary, Essex accent, fresh out from
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England on his first overseas posting--and
known to the junior staff, predictably, as
Mildred.
Yes, Woodrow conceded, he was alone. Why?
"Something's come up, I'm afraid, Sandy. I
wondered if I might pop down a moment
actually."
"Can't it wait till after the meeting?"
"Well, I don't think it can really--no, it
can't," Mildren replied, gathering
conviction as he spoke. "It's Tessa
Quayle, Sandy."
A different Woodrow now, hackles up,
nerves extended. Tessa. "What about her?"
he said. His tone deliberately incurious,
his mind racing in all directions. Oh
Tessa. Oh Christ. What have you done now?
"The Nairobi police say she's been
killed," Mildren said, as if he said it
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