The mission song - John Le Carr

Full of politics, heart, and the sort of suspense that
nobody in the world does better, The Mission Song
turns John Le Carre's laser eye for the complexity of the modern world
on turmoil and conspiracy in
Africa.
Abandoned by both his Irish
father and Congolese mother, Bruno Salvador has long looked for someone
to guide his life. He has found it in Mr. Anderson of British
Intelligence. Bruno's African upbringing, and fluency in numerous
African languages, has made him a top interpreter in London, useful to
businesses, hospitals, diplomats--and spies. Working for Anderson in a
clandestine facility known as the "Chat Room," Salvo (as he's known)
translates intercepted phone calls, bugged recordings, and snatched
voice mail messages.
When Anderson sends him to a
mysterious island to interpret during a secret conference between
Central African warlords, Bruno thinks he is helping Britain bring peace
to a bloody corner of the world. But then he hears something he should
not have...
By turns thriller, love story, and comic
allegory of our times, The Mission Song is a
crowning achievement, recounting an interpreter's heroically naive
journey out of the dark of Western hypocrisy and into the heart of
lightness.