Collection Points: Le Chant de la Mission (Paperback)

from Hagelstein

A well-told thriller. The story of interpreter Bruno Salvador and his bid to be David to the British government's Goliath as they meddle in African affairs. Smooth reading.

from johnthefireman

This is quite different from the vintage le Carre Cold War spy thrillers. The plot is not so convoluted and the main character is very different. For a spy novel it shows a reasonable understanding of the dynamics of the Great Lakes region of Africa.

from Caralj

While almost everyone who has reviewed this novel by LeCarre was disappointed by his non-Smiley, main character, Bruno Salvador (Salvo), I loved the fact that it was far removed from his other, cold, distant Smiley novels! What first got my interest was the fact that the protagonist was an interp...

from blh518

I admire the way Le Carre continues to highlight new areas of espionage opportunity since his Cold War world is lost to him. In The Mission Song he has created a typical Le Carre protagonist in Bruno Salvador - a man under constraint, waiting to leap blindly at the opportunity to travel beyond th...

from RickGeissal

This is a very unusual novel; the protagonist is part caucasian & part Congolese African, raised in the republic of Congo. He lives in London and works as an interpreter; speaks approx. 10 languages. Part of the time he works for MI-5. The book is, of course, very well-written; it is also fascina...