| Synopsis: |
British diplomat Justin Quale, complacent raiser of freesias and doting husband of the stunning, much younger Tessa, has tended his own garden in Nairobi for too long. Tessa is Justin's opposite, a fiery reformer, "the Princess Diana of the African poor". But now Tessa has turned up naked, raped, and dead on a mysterious visit to remote Lake Turkana in Kenya. Her traveling companion (and lover?), the handsome Congolese-Belgian doctor Arnold Bluhm, has vanished. So, too, has Quayle's complacency... |