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The mission song, John le Carré
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- Titel
- The mission song
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- John le Carré
- Verlag
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2007
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 339
- ISBN10
- 0340922001
- ISBN13
- 9780340922002
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik, Krimi & Thriller, Thriller, Politik, Spannung, Kriegsliteratur, Kriege, Afrika, England, Geschenke für Männer, Geheimnisse, Großbritannien, Spionage, Geheimnisvoll, mysteriös, London, Spionageromane, Verrat, Machtkampf, Korruption, Kongo, Dolmetscher
- Originaltitel
- The mission song
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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 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.