The Constant Gardener
by le Carr, John
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good, 1st edition, with unclipped d/j (good); text block firm, unmarked pages clean; some foxing on edges; owner's inscript
- ISBN 10
- 0340733373
- ISBN 13
- 9780340733370
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Maidenhead, Berkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2001. 1st. hardback. Very good, 1st edition, with unclipped d/j (good); text block firm, unmarked pages clean; some foxing on edges; owner's inscription ffep.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Tessa Quayle has been horribly murdered on the shores of Lake Turkana in Northern Kenya, the birthplace of mankind. Her putative African lover, a doctor with one of the aid agencies, has disappeared. Her husband, Justin, a career diplomat and amateur gardener at the British High Commission in Nairobi, sets out on a personal odyssey in pursuit of the killers and their motive. His quest takes him to the Foreign Office in London, across Europe and Canada and back to Africa, to the depths of South Sudan, and finally to the very spot where Tessa died. On his way Justin meets terror, violence, laughter, conspiracy and knowledge. But his greatest discovery is the woman he barely had time to love. The book on which the acclaimed film starring Ralph Fiennes and Rachel Weisz was based.
Synopsis
The Constant Gardener is a 2001 novel by John le Carré. It tells the story of Justin Quayle, a British diplomat whose activist wife is murdered. Believing that there is more behind the murder, he seeks to uncover the truth behind her death, and finds an international conspiracy of corrupt bureaucracy and pharmaceutical money.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Inklings & Yarnspinners (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- IYC125057
- Title
- The Constant Gardener
- Author
- le Carr, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good, 1st edition, with unclipped d/j (good); text block firm, unmarked pages clean; some foxing on edges; owner's inscript
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0340733373
- ISBN 13
- 9780340733370
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2001
- Pages
- 508
- Keywords
- 1st, fiction, le Carr, pseudonym, thriller
- Bookseller catalogs
- 2nd-hand books;
- X weight
- 0.89 g
- Size
- 8vo (230 x 150 / 9\"\" x 6\"\")
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