The Constant Gardener by John le Carre

Author:John le Carre [Carre, John le]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, Espionage
ISBN: 9780743287203
Google: e58LtwAACAAJ
Amazon: 0743428552
Barnesnoble: 0743428552
Publisher: Unknown
Published: 2000-01-01T19:00:00+00:00

turn to the experts for evaluation. That's not just

company policy. I'd say that was Holy

Writ here at ThreeBees, wouldn't you? BBB (eber): Absolutely. No question,

Doug. The chief insists. The moment there's a

problem, it's get KVH on the help line. Officer: What are you telling us? This is

ridiculous. What happens to paper in this

place, for Christ's sake? BBB (crick): I'm telling you that we're

hearing you and we'll mount a search and see what

we come up with. This isn't the civil service,

Rob. Or Scotland Yard. This is

Africa. We don't all march on our

fucking files, right? We got better ways

of spending our fucking time than-P. R. Oakey, QC: I think there

are two points here. Perhaps three. Can I

take them separately? The first is, how

certain are you officers that the meeting between Mrs.

Quayle, Dr. Bluhm and

representatives of ThreeBees that you're

referring to actually took place? Officer: As we already told you, we have

documentary evidence in Bluhm's handwriting,

from Bluhm's diary, that a meeting was arranged

for November 18 through Ms. Rampuri's

office. P. R. Oakey, QC: Arranged is one

thing, Lesley. Consummated is quite another.

Let's hope Ms. Rampuri has a good

memory. She conducts an awful lot of

meetings, you may be sure. My second

point is tone. Insofar as you are able to say,

would the alleged representations have been

adversarial in tone? Might there, for instance,

have been a whiff of litigation in the air? De

mortuis and so on, but from all one hears about

Mrs. Quayle, she wasn't exactly one

to pull her punches, was she? She was also a

lawyer, as you say. And Dr. Bluhm is

by way of being a professional watchdog in the

pharmaceutical field, I understand. We're

not dealing with nobodies. Officer: What if they were adversarial? If

somebody's died of a drug, people have got a right

to be adversarial. P. R. Oakey, QC: Well, obviously,

Rob, if Ms. Rampuri smelled a

claim in the air, or worse, or the chief

did, assuming he did indeed receive the written

materials, which is clearly open to question, then their

very first instinct would be to send them on to the

firm's legal department. Which would be another

place to look, wouldn't it, Doug? Officer: I thought you were their legal department. P. R. Oakey, QC: (humor) I'm a

last resort, Rob. Not a first resort.

I'm far too expensive. BBB (crick): We'll get back to you,

Rob. It's been our pleasure. Next time

let's make it lunch. But don't expect the

moon is my advice. It's like I say.

We don't spend all day filing paper here.

We have a lot of irons in the fire and as the

chief likes to say, ThreeBees does

business from the hip. That's how this

company became what it is today. Officer: We'd like one more moment of your time,

please, Mr. Crick. We're interested in

speaking to a gentleman named Lorbeer,

probably Dr. Lorbeer, of German,

Swiss or perhaps Dutch origin. I'm

afraid we don't have a first name for him but we

understand he's been closely involved with the career

of Dypraxa here in Africa. BBB (crick): On which side, Lesley? Officer: Does that matter? BBB (crick): Well, it does, rather. If

Lorbeer's a doctor, which you seem to think he

is, he's more likely to be with the

manufacturers than with us.

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