The Mission Song
by le Carr, John
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- first
- Condition
- Very Good, 1st edition, with unclipped d/j (fair, grubby and bumped); text block firm (slight forward lean), unmarked pages clea
- ISBN 10
- 034092196X
- ISBN 13
- 9780340921968
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About This Item
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2006. 1st. h/b. Very Good, 1st edition, with unclipped d/j (fair, grubby and bumped); text block firm (slight forward lean), unmarked pages clean.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). 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.
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- Bookseller
- Inklings & Yarnspinners (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- IYC132665
- Title
- The Mission Song
- Author
- le Carr, John
- Format/Binding
- H/b
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good, 1st edition, with unclipped d/j (fair, grubby and bumped); text block firm (slight forward lean), unmarked pages clea
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 034092196X
- ISBN 13
- 9780340921968
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2006
- Pages
- 341
- Keywords
- 1st, fiction, espionage, le Carr, pseudonym
- Bookseller catalogs
- 2nd-hand books;
- X weight
- 0.67 g
- Size
- 8vo (230 x 150 / 9\"\" x 6\"\")
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