Author: LE CARRE, JOHN
Title: The Mission Song
Description: London, Hodder and Stoughton. 2006. (ISBN: 034092196X). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which has a crease to front inner flap. Fourth impression. The novel is of Bruno Salvador, known as Salvo, 29 years old, the orphaned love child of a Catholic Irish missionary and a Congolese headman's daughter. Salvo, inspired by his mentor Brother Michael, trains as a professional interpreter in the minority African languages and soon becomes a rising star in his profession, courted by City corporations, hospitals, law courts and inevitably the mushrooming overworld of British Intelligence. By turn thriller, love story and comic allegory of our time, it recounts Salvo's heroically naive journey out of the dark of Western hypocrisy and into the heart of lightness. D4D. Fine/Near Fine.

Keywords: Fiction, Bruno Salvador, Catholic Irish Missionary, British Intelligence 034092196x


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