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The Constant Gardener

By: John le Carré
Narrated by: Michael Jayston
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Summary

The beautiful Tessa Quayle is murdered near Lake Turkana in northern Kenya, the birthplace of mankind. And her putative African lover and travelling companion has vanished from the scene of the crime. Tessa’s husband, 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. On his way he meets terror, violence, and conspiracy, but his greatest discovery is the woman he barely had time to love.

© 2001 David Cornwell (P)2014 Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd.
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The forms of integrity and their antithesis

For me, what I enjoyed was the depth of the illustrations of integrity and their antithesis. I enjoyed some of the detailed description of the pharma industry less.

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Bit of a slow starter, and got confused with the characters but as it was a daily deal can't complain. Story line sounds good but is quite slow paced for my liking.

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An absolute feast of plot, characterisation, structure and tension

This is arguably the marstro’s masterwork and it is here superbly read. Surely an absolute ‘must’ for any audible library of contemporary literature.

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A masterpiece

This was a great read - totally enthralling from the first chapter. Highly recommended and well worth your time.

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great book, good performance

I love the book. great dialogues, good plot. Le Carré was a great author. the performance was good.

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Excellent

A classic John Le Carré. A little slow and complex in parts but still a joy to listen to.

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Great book.

I absolutely loved this book. The narration was spot on. I listened whenever I could and found it hard to put down.

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Thoughtful

Gripping story, well read, with good variety of voices. The main character believable and imagined sensitively.

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Excellent narration

Overall a good story but rather long-winded.at times Story told through a lot of flashbacks and performed excellently by Michael Jason.

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fantastic

I thoroughly enjoyed this audiobook - extremely absorbing... a great story, great characters and brilliant narration.

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