Tessa Quayle, a young and beautiful English lawyer, was brutally murdered near Lake Turkana in northern Kenya. Her traveling companion and supposed lover, an African doctor with a humanitarian organization, has disappeared without a trace. Tessa's husband, Justin, a career diplomat at the British High Commission in Nairobi and an amateur gardener, embarks on a solitary quest to find the killers and their motives.

His quest takes him to London, then across Europe and Canada, back to Africa, to South Sudan, and ends at the very scene of the crime. An odyssey full of violence and fury, where the dark machinations of pharmaceutical multinationals are plotted and strange political alliances are formed.

And as Justin's conscience awakens, as he rallies to Tessa's cause, even completing the mission she had set for herself, his greatest revelation will be the discovery of this woman he hardly had time to love.

The Gardener's Constancy blends the moving story of a man raised by tragedy with the merciless exploration of the hidden side of globalization by one of the most incisive novelists of our time.

John le Carré , born in 1931, studied at the universities of Bern and Oxford, taught at Eton, and worked briefly for British intelligence during the Cold War. For six decades, he devoted himself to writing. He died in 2020 at the age of 89.