In my view quite the author's best since the Smiley series. The story revolves around the murder of the wife of a British diplomat on the staff of the High Commission in Nairobi provoked by her discovery of unscrupulous goings-on in the international pharmaceutical field. Unlike Le Carré's previous novels, this one intertwines a movingly described love story. As well as in Africa, the action takes place in London, Cambridge, Germany, Italy and Canada.
(Jeremy Swann - bwl 8 April 2001 ) |
