![]() ![]() Handsome, diffident Justin (the "constant gardener" of the title) at first appears not quite up to the task of tracking down her killers. You? she is blowing stupidly as they kill her, her mouth formed into an oo. ![]() Her husband Justin, also First Secretary at the High Commission, is faced with identifying her severed head: "Her eyes closed and eyebrows raised and mouth open in lolling disbelief, black blood caked inside as if she'd had all her teeth pulled at the same time. John le Carré's latest novel does just that, as news comes to the British High Commission in Nairobi that human-rights activist Tessa Quayle has been murdered - butchered - up in northern Kenya. ![]() In medias res is where they say you should always start. ![]()
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