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The Mission Song

By John le Carré

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| eBook | 9781844568949

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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 foContinue

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.

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  • I don't think it would be possible for John le Carre to write a bad book. His unique style is so readable, so utterly compelling that his books prevent sleep once you make a start on them!
    This is no exception. A study of the West's greed and one man's fight to save his sanity and the nation h ... (continue)

    I don't think it would be possible for John le Carre to write a bad book. His unique style is so readable, so utterly compelling that his books prevent sleep once you make a start on them!
    This is no exception. A study of the West's greed and one man's fight to save his sanity and the nation he loves is presented in a truly wonderful story that grips from the first page and does not let up.

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