I'm going to discuss the plot in detail, so stop reading if you don't want it ruined. This Robert Ludlum-scale conception is tame? It may be true that certain international pharmaceuticals are behaving this badly, but this unthrilling thriller so lacks momentum and grace that it's not going to force the issue into the public consciousness. In the book, a pharmaceutical conglomerate tests an unstable new drug on a large number of Africans, with deadly results crushes opposition from doctors who question the testing process suborns the governments of nations large and small operates its own secret service and, not least, creatively tortures and murders those who might work against it. The Dostoevskian pessimism that has marked the greatest work of John le Carré reaches a new level in his latest book, "The Constant Gardener." And once it's over, the reader is astonished to read this disclaimer in an afterword from the famously opaque author: "By comparison with the reality, my story as tame as a holiday postcard."
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