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The constant gardener

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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.

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0340937726 / 9780340937723
Paperback / softback
823.914
21/09/2006
United Kingdom
English
Thrillers
506 p.
20 cm
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Reprint. Originally published: London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2001.