Talking to Peter Eigen in the bar of a hotel in Uzbekistan during the European Bank for Reconstruction & Development annual meeting, Euromoney is reminded strongly of the hero of John le Carré’s novel The Constant Gardener.
The novel is about a young diplomat in Kenya who turns a blind eye to official corruption in the name of good diplomacy, while his more radical and idealistic wife performs heroic work in the Nairobi slums. Her murder by a multinational pharmaceutical company prompts the diplomat to stop sitting on the fence and start actively campaigning against corruption himself.
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