John le Carré

The Constant Gardener

Thriller about a humanitarian worker uncovering corporate corruption in pharmaceutical testing

About the author

John le Carré
John le Carré

John le Carré transformed the spy novel from escapist entertainment into serious literary fiction exploring moral compromise and institutional betrayal. His George Smiley novels offered a bleak, realistic counterpoint to the glamour of James Bond, grounded in his own experience in British intelligence. He is widely considered the greatest espionage novelist who ever lived.

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