Review "Mission Song" by John Le Carre

"Mission Song" is Le Carre's new novel about an African born interpreter who works for British intelligence.

This book is the story of Bruno Salvador, who raised in the Congo and has a gift for languages. He comes to England and uses his talents as an interpreter for businesses, courts and, of course, British intelligence. But when he is asked to interpret at a conference where the topic is a coup in his birth country he must choose which side he is really on....

I enjoy John Le Carre's books. They are complicated spy novels with interesting characters and real world problems. At the same time they can be amusing and entertaining. Le Carre is great at creating characters with unique voices and views and then having the action in the book be narrated by those voices.

This was not his greatest book (his cold war books were better) but it was still a good read.