The Mission Song
John Le Carré Audio Book

Salvo is the ever-innocent, twenty-nine-year-old orphaned love-child of a Catholic Irish missionary and a Congolese headman’s daughter. Inspired by his mentor he trains as a professional interpreter in African languages and soon he is courted by City corporations, law courts, the immigration services and British Intelligence. He is also courted by the all-white, Surrey-born Penelope. Salvo is despatched to a no-name island in the North Sea to attend a top-secret meeting between Western financiers and East Congolese warlords. But there he is obliged to interpret matters never intended for his reawakened African conscience