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The Mission Song : A Novel by John Le Carré is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Mission Song : A Novel about?
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 headmans 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 Britains 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
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- John Le Carré
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Canada, Limited
- Published
- 2006
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780670065448
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Thriller, Fiction
- Rating
- 4.1 / 5 (1,886 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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