The Constant Gardener, based mostly in Kenya, concerns the brutal murders of the wife (Tessa) of a British diplomat (Justin Quayle) and a local Kenyan physician. Le Carre's novels have been evolving from the classic The Spy Who Came In From The Cold Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy The Honorable School Boy and Smiley's People to more current events in books such as the Little Drummer Girl, The Russia House, and Single and Single. True, with the demise of the cold war, Mr. Le Carre writing about international, intergovernmental espionage, his newest novel, The Constant Gardener, concerns the exact issues of public trust in clinical research that I have addressed previously in these pages. I recently read a book by one of my favorite spy and mystery novel authors, John Le Carre. These issues have been well chronicled both in professional and lay publications. His posthumous novel Silverview was published in 2021.In past columns, I have commented on the challenges we in the health care industry face in regards to public trust, both in medical education as well as in biomedical research. His memoir, The Pigeon Tunnel, was published in 2016 and the last George Smiley novel, A Legacy of Spies, appeared in 2017. At the end of the Cold War, le Carre widened his scope to explore an international landscape including the arms trade and the War on Terror. His third novel, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, secured him a worldwide reputation, which was consolidated by the acclaim for his trilogy Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Honourable Schoolboy and Smiley's People. He published his debut novel, Call for the Dead, in 1961 while still a secret servant.
A spell of teaching at Eton led him to a short career in British Intelligence (MI5&6). At sixteen he found refuge at the university of Bern, then later at Oxford. The son of a confidence trickster, he spent his childhood between boarding school and the London underworld. For six decades, he wrote novels that came to define our age.
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