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.
- ISBN10 7208083045
- ISBN13 9787208083042
- Publish Date 1 November 2009 (first published 31 December 1925)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 27 July 2021
- Imprint Shang Hai Ren Min Chu Ban She/Tsai Fong Books
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 377
- Language Chinese