The Constant Gardener Signed by John le Carré First Edition Hodder & Stoughton 2001. A fine copy with no previous owner's inscriptions or marks. No foxing to contents or edges, covers without bumping or toning. In a fine price clipped dust jacket that has no fading, tears or loss. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR directly to title page without dedication.

In sun-baked Nairobi and rain-lashed London, mild-mannered diplomat Justin Quayle mourns his vibrant activist wife Tessa, slain in Kenya's remote north, her death initially blamed on a lover's betrayal. Unearthing her final report on a multinational pharmaceutical giant's lethal drug trials exploiting impoverished Africans, Justin spirals into a perilous quest for truth, dodging corporate assassins and complicit officials across continents. Le Carré fuses heart-wrenching romance with blistering indictment of Western hypocrisy and neocolonial plunder, crafting a tone of searing moral fury tempered by tender loss and unyielding idealism, where personal grief ignites global reckoning.

This potent le Carré thriller grips readers with its fusion of intimate marital elegy and ferocious anti-capitalist polemic, akin to Graham Greene's righteous outrage in The Quiet American or Barbara Kingsolver's eco-justice in The Poisonwood Bible, luring those who crave suspense laced with ethical fire. Collectors treasure it as a late-career zenith, its cultural thunder in spotlighting Big Pharma's real-world atrocities amplifying le Carré's legacy as conscience of the intelligence world turned corporate watchdog. Aimed at socially aware adults—activists, medics, and justice warriors—it transcends genre, compelling book clubs and film buffs via its riveting Ralph Fiennes adaptation while probing love's defiant stand against systemic evil.