A redemption

A young lawyer, wife of a diplomat in Nairobi was found dead, murdered, as part of its humanitarian activities. Her husband does not believe the official explanations and began searching for the truth.

Contrary to what seems to say the official summary, there is not much suspense in this research. We know very quickly the involvement of a pharmaceutical multinational and political complicity in the cruel death of Tessa. In history, many details are revealed, of course, but that's not what really made me appreciate the book. First, there is the description of the post-colonial diplomatic community, and this indolent and corrupt atmosphere. And secondly, there is the portrait of this hollow loving husband, husband of a much younger woman, whose idealism and purity was his own redemption. This slow story is that of a man who wants to live in the footsteps of the woman he loved and redeemed him in his own eyes.