I really enjoyed this book, my second John le Carre novel, and liked his departure from Smiley's men. There was still an element of the spying underworld though, phew! I watched the film of this book years and years ago, but although the memory of the film is fading the book didn't seem to be quite different to how I remembered the film. The protagonist is Justin who works for the British High Commission in Nairobi, Kenya. The novel opens with him being given the news of the murder of his wife. The book travels backwards in time to memories shared together but also follows Justin's investigations into her death, as well as her research into the pharmaceutical company, The Three Bees.
