Books
February, 2001
The gent with the green thumb in John le Carré's latest novel, The Constant Gardener (Scribner), is Justin Quayle, an English diplomat who serves in Nairobi. Middle-aged, elegant, polite to a fault, Quayle seemingly pays more attention to his flora than to the political climate or to the activities of his beautiful young wife, Tessa. Even before this long, meticulous heartbreak of a novel begins, Tessa has been murdered while on a northern journey with an African doctor, now suspiciously missing...
