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Laddar... Den trägne odlaren (2001)av John le Carré
   Best Spy Fiction (24) » 6 till Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken.  CalleFriden | Mar 11, 2023 | 
 Im Nachwort seines 18. Romans schreibt John le Carré: "Je tiefer ich in den pharmazeutischen Dschungel eindrang, desto klarer wurde mir, dass mein Roman, verglichen mit der Wirklichkeit, ungefähr so harmlos ist wie eine Urlaubspostkarte." Was so nicht stimmt, denn der Roman ist weder harmlos noch sollte man ihn an der Realität messen. John le Carré hat eine blutige Variante der Verstrickung von Politik und Wirtschaft in Szene gesetzt, von der wir inständig hoffen, dass sie niemals Realität wird. Schon die Vorstellung solcher Zusammenhänge, wie sie John le Carré in seinem Roman aufgezeigt hat, flößt Angst ein und sensibilisiert das Unrechtsbewusstsein des Lesers. Eine positive Nebenwirkung! Aus diesem Grund und für einige spannende Lektürestunden sollte man dem Autor dankbar sein.  Ingår i förlagsserienList Taschenbuch (60586) PriserPrestigefyllda urvalUppmärksammade listor
Frightening, heartbreaking, and exquisitely calibrated, John le Carre's new novel opens with the gruesome murder of the young and beautiful Tessa Quayle near northern Kenya's Lake Turkana, the birthplace of mankind. Her putative African lover and traveling companion, a doctor with one of the aid agencies, has vanished from the scene of the crime. Tessa's much older husband, Justin, a career diplomat at the British High Commission in Nairobi, sets out on a personal odyssey in pursuit of the killers and their motive. A master chronicler of the deceptions and betrayals of ordinary people caught in political conflict, le Carre portrays, in The Constant Gardener, the dark side of unbridled capitalism. His eighteenth novel is also the profoundly moving story of a man whom tragedy elevates. Justin Quayle, amateur gardener and ineffectual bureaucrat, seemingly oblivious to his wife's cause, discovers his own resources and the extraordinary courage of the woman he barely had time to love. The Constant Gardener is a magnificent exploration of the new world order by one of the most compelling and elegant storytellers of our time. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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Justin learns that Tessa had uncovered a corporate scandal involving medical experimentation in Africa. KVH (Karel Vita Hudson), a large pharmaceutical company working under the cover of AIDS tests and treatments, is testing a tuberculosis drug that has severe side effects. Rather than help the trial subjects and begin again with a new drug, KVH covered up the side effects and improved the drug only in anticipation of a massive multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis outbreak.
Justin travels the world, often under assumed identities, to reconstruct the circumstances leading to Tessa's murder. As he begins to piece together Tessa's final report on the fraudulent drug tests, he learns that the roots of the conspiracy stretch further than he could have imagined; to a German pharmawatch NGO, an African aid station, and, most disturbingly to him, corrupt civil servants in the British Foreign Office.