JOHN LE CARRE - The Mission Song (2006) Africa Set Thriller Novel, Hardback, DJ

The Mission Song - John Le Carre\nPublished by Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, London, 2006. Second impression. Hardback in the publisher's black boards, titled in silver to the spine. Book in Vg condition, with just a hint of age toning. Jacket unclipped, with minor creasing to the edges. Vg overall. \nBruno 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 Iny