The Mission Song by John Le Carre

Bruno Salvador, known as Salvo, is the ever-innocent 29 year old son 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 to train as a professional interpreter in the minority of African languages of which he has been an obsessive collector. He is courted by city corporations, the Immigration Services and - inevitably - the mushrooming overworld of British Intelligence. He is also courted - and won - by the all-white, Surrey-born reporter Penelope, whom he promptly marries. 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 reawakened African conscience. This 2006 Hodder Headline Paperback is in good condition.

ISBN: 9780733621178 SKU: 1356097 Note: Any image shown is from a stock photo and is not the actual book.

Location: Fiction