John le Carre’s exquisite new novel opens in northern Kenya with the gruesome murder of the young and beautiful Tessa Quayle. Her husband, Justin, sets out on a personal odyssey in pursuit of the killers and their motive, and what he learns makes him not only a suspect among his own colleagues, but a target for his wife’s killers.

           A master chronicler of the betrayals of ordinary people caught in political conflict, le Carre portrays the dark side of unbridled capitalism as only he can. In THE CONSTANT GARDENER he unfurls a profoundly moving story of a man elevated through tragedy as Justin Quayle, amateur gardener and cautious bureaucrat, discovers his own resources and the extraordinary courage of the woman he barely had time to love.