Bruno Salvador, known to friends and enemies alike as Salvo, is the ever-innocent, twenty-nine-year-old orphaned love-child of a Catholic Irish missionary and a Congolese headman's daughter. Educated first at mission school in the East Congolese province of Kivu, and later at a discreet sanctuary for the secret sons of Rome, Salvo is inspired by his mentor Brother Michael to train as a professional interpreter in the minority African languages of which, almost from birth, he has been an obsessive collector. Soon a rising star in his profession, he is courted by City corporations, hospitals, law courts, the Immigration services and - inevitably - the mushrooming overworld of British Intelligence. He is also courted - and won - by the all-white, Surrey-born Penelope, star reporter on one of our great national newspapers, whom with typical impulsiveness he promptly marries. Yet even as the story opens, a contrary and irresistible love is dawning in him. Despatched to a no-name island in the North Sea to attend a top-secret meeting between Western financiers and East Congolese warlords, Salvo is obliged to interpret matters never intended for his re-awoken African conscience.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN-13
9780340921968
eBay Product ID (ePID)
86523819
Product Key Features
Book Title
The Mission Song
Author
John Le Carre
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Thriller, Books
Publication Year
2006
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
240mm
Item Width
164mm
Item Weight
668g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
John Le Carre
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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