The Mission Song

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Bruno Salvador, known to friends and enemies alike as Salvo, is Che ever-innocent, cwenty-nine-year-old orphaned love-child of a Catholic Irish missionary and a Congolese headman's daughter. Educated first ac mission school in che Ease Congolese province of Kivu, and lacer ac a discreec sanctuary for che secrec sons of Rome, Salvo is inspired by his mentor Brocher Michael to crain as a professional incerprecer in che minoricy African languages of which, almosc from birth, he has been an obsessive colleccor
Soon a rising scar in his profession, he is courted by Cicy corporacions, hospicals, lawcourcs, che Immigracion services and - inevicably - the mushrooming overworld of British Intelligence. He is also courted - and won - by che all-whice, Surrey-born Penelope, star reporcer on one of our greac nacional newspapers, whom with cypical impulsiveness he prompcly marries. Yec even as che scory opens, a contrary and irresiscible love is dawning in him.
Despatched to a no-name island... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Bruno Salvador, known to friends and enemies alike as Salvo, is Che ever-innocent, cwenty-nine-year-old orphaned love-child of a Catholic Irish missionary and a Congolese headman's daughter. Educated first ac mission school in che Ease Congolese province of Kivu, and lacer ac a discreec sanctuary for che secrec sons of Rome, Salvo is inspired by his mentor Brocher Michael to crain as a professional incerprecer in che minoricy African languages of which, almosc from birth, he has been an obsessive colleccor
Soon a rising scar in his profession, he is courted by Cicy corporacions, hospicals, lawcourcs, che Immigracion services and - inevicably - the mushrooming overworld of British Intelligence. He is also courted - and won - by che all-whice, Surrey-born Penelope, star reporcer on one of our greac nacional newspapers, whom with cypical impulsiveness he prompcly marries. Yec even as che scory opens, a contrary and irresiscible love is dawning in him.
Despatched to a no-name island in the North Sea to accend a top-secret meecing between Western financiers and East Congolese warlords. Salvo is obliged to interpret maccers never incended for his reawakened African conscience.
By curn thriller, love story and comic allegory of our times, THE MISSION SONG recounts Salvo's heroically naive journey out of the dark of Wescern hypocrisy, and inco che hearc oflighcness. Vissza