The Constant Gardener is a magnificent exploration of the new world order by one of the most compelling and elegant storytellers of our time. The novel opens in northern Kenya with the gruesome murder of Tessa Quayle -- young, beautiful, and dearly beloved to husband Justin. When Justin sets out on a personal odyssey to uncover the mystery of her death, what he finds could make him not only a suspect among his own colleagues, but a target for Tessa's killers as well.
A master chronicler of the betrayals of ordinary people caught in political conflict, John le Carre portrays the dark side of unbridled capitalism as only he can. In The Constant Gardener he tells a compelling, complex story of a man elevated through tragedy, as Justin Quayle -- amateur gardener, aging widower, and ineffectual bureaucrat -- discovers his own natural resources and the extraordinary courage of the woman he barely had time to love.

Growing up in a family of eight in an Irish neighborhood ghetto in Boston, Massachusetts, is not an easy life. Cody realizes early on that a kid from this neighborhood can only become a priest, a cop, or a criminal. Cody chooses the latter. He quickly adapts to living on the streets. He desires the life of a criminal and is mentored by some of the most reputable gangsters known around Boston.

A career criminal, Cody pleads guilty to murder in the second degree and enters one of the harshest maximum correctional institutions in the country. But incarceration doesn't stop Cody; he adjusts easily to prison life. During his sentence, he escapes twice and commits several murders. With assistance from other inmates, he's accused of forming execution squads to maintain power. He helps organize a prison takeover while plotting to commit more murders. Death has been his best friend all of his life.

Cody has other friends in some strategic positions within the Massachusetts justice system. He's not the average man nor is he the average criminal. Although Cody never had a problem escaping prison, he realizes that he can never escape his past.

Martin Stallworth is a black man trying to make it on Wall Street. As a junk bond salesman with the investment bank Whorman Skeller & Co., he has a chance to prove his worth when the firm plans to launch a major high yield bond deal for a satellite communications company called Lodestar. Because Lodestar has important connections to the US Department of Defense, Martin and the other junk bond salespersons know their jobs are on the line if they don't sell the deal. Their desperation to do so leads to an act of espionage and murder. Martin somehow finds himself as the accused perpetrator of both. Both the cops and a gang of Chinese thugs under the command of a rogue hedge fund trader are hot on his trail. "Junk" combines a satirical send-up of a typical investment bank with elements of a fast-paced thriller. While the narrative action is riveting, Goodwin's characterizations and descriptive writing attain the level of serious literary fiction.

At the end of the Cold War, Jack Cash finds himself sitting in a prison with no hope of parole. It appears that this super spy and international bounty hunter's days of intelligence gathering are over. Nicknamed Parthian Stranger by his inmates, Jack spends his days trying to figure out how to escape the prison where he has been hidden for the last twenty years. Everything is about to change for Jack when he awakens one morning to discover he is alone in the penitentiary. With no guards in sight, Jack makes his way up the prison walls and out to freedom. Now on the run, Jack is in a fight for his life and will stop at nothing-even if it means murdering anyone who gets in his way. But after he meets Sara Sanders, a victim of a stalker who enlists his help, he has no idea that the CIA is closing in an attempt to help him. Suddenly the life of a Parthian Stranger turns in an unexpected direction that leads him straight into a dangerous situation where he must pull out all the stops to not only save his own life, but also the lives of others.

An unwelcome blast from the past puts Patrick and Ingrid back in harm's way . . . Nicholas Haldane was dead, but he wouldn't lie down. And now Julian Hardy, the man who hired him in a bid to destroy Richard Daws, a top official in the National Crime Agency, is out of prison and has changed his surname to Mannering. Patrick Gillard, working for the agency but within the Avon and Somerset force with his wife Ingrid Langley, receives a request from MI5, for whom he used to work, to investigate Mannering. They are then called in when his cleaner makes a shocking discovery. Meanwhile, an enigmatic couple calling themselves Simon and Natasha Graves turn up in the village, intent on pestering Patrick's recently widowed mother. Could there be a connection to Mannering? Patrick and Ingrid are soon embroiled in a deeply personal and disturbing case.

"The gray haired tramp was on the run. It took only seconds for the younger man to reach out, knowing his grasp would pull the ghost rider down, but just as his glove latched onto a bony shoulder, the phantom traveler twisted free. With incredible agility, he hit an open boxcar, and like some strange insect disappeared inside. Curly was right behind him, climbing into darkness. Suddenly, there was a scraping, banging sound as the cargo door opened on the other side of the train. For one split second, Curly saw the billowing of a ragged shirt as the hobo jumped into light and was gone. By the time Curly reached the sunlit opening, the train lurched forward and he grabbed instinctively to the side of the sliding door. As the locomotive pulled its hanger-ons out of the station, the gypsy looked for his ghost but he had vanished. It would be an easy drop to the ground, only a short walk back to the depot and home."

In all wars the battles sometime continue long after the last shots are fired; when the veteran's return home forces a family to glimpse the trials of war through the haunting memories and alien behavior of their loved one. branch, fully expecting to serve his tour of duty as a domestic counterintelligence agent stationed in the Boston area. However, a personality clash with his boss rapidly resulted in his assignment to the recently formed Phoenix Program and into a lair of C.I.A. operatives and covert action in Vietnam. quickly propelled him to a sleep deprived, delusionary, fatal act that would demand a cover-up of his deed and his clandestine evacuation to hospitals in Vietnam and Japan. with cold indifference, and Scott decided to bolt the door on his memories and remain mute on his time in 'Nam. The gnawing digestion of his wartime participation haunted him for ten more years until the day he received a startling phone call; leading to a shocking re-acquaintance. As a result of this meeting, Scott's discovery ended years of tormented speculation, but left in its wake a raft of thought provoking and bone chilling conclusions

'A fast-paced, keenly observed, savage indictment of deceit and betrayal through the corridors of Washington, with electrifying surprises right up to the last page!"
-"-Saul Zaentz, producer of 'The English Patient," 'Amadeus," and 'Unbearable Lightness of Being""
'Unrelentingly suspenseful!"
-"Chicago Tribune"
'Deft characterizations. Karman knows how to build suspense. If a political thriller is your meat and potatoes, this fast-paced novel is for you!"
-"Newsday"
'An unusually lively political thriller."
-"Publishers Weekly"
'Karman has the gift. Like watching the sharpest big-screen thriller you can imagine."
-"Cleveland Plain Dealer"

Stolen from his mother at an early age and trained at the Compound, Adam's abilities and skills are developed and honed until he becomes the perfect field operative. He is able to play any role and become whomever the Agency needs him to be. Until one day when a small band of desperate people recruit him to help find a group of genetically enhanced individuals that can visually decode other people's thoughts. Adam not only discovers his parents were part of the experiment but unearths the true nature behind the Agency. As he battles to stop it from destroying more lives, he struggles to comes to terms with his own past involvement. Adam soon realizes that evil cannot be excused even if it is for the greater good.

A dangerous and often fatal pursuit, collecting pieces of bombs is a prime activity for boys in London during WWII in the early 1940s. Young Tom Sloan is no exception. While investigating one ravaged building, he finds more than he expects-an injured German pilot, Hauptman Heinrich Leuzinger, who had ejected from his plane. Leuzinger begs Tom not to turn him in to authorities, but rather to help him see his wife and children again. Tom understands this is a dangerous dilemma for which there could be serious consequences. More than a thousand miles away in the North African desert, the boy's father, Major Bernie Sloan, a British officer and the commandant of a German and Italian POW camp, meets captured German Colonel Hans Dieter Reichmann who tells an unbelievable story. Sloan, a Jewish man, harbors a deep hatred for Germany and its people. Sloan finds it difficult to believe that Reichmann may have actually saved a Jewish family by smuggling them out of Germany. Both father and son are about to discover that in war, as in life, things are not always as they appear, and people can't always be judged by the uniforms they wear. Or can they?