The Mission Song

First edition. 8vo. Pp. [vi], 339, [1, map]. Black cloth, lettered in silver to spine; brick-red endpapers. Sewn-in silk bookmark ribbon. Waterstone's released a signed edition, limited to 1,500 copies, concurrently with this first edition. Hatchards issued its own signed edition, limited to 500.

Signed by le Carré to title page.

Despatched to a secret conference by British Intelligence, a naïve young interpreter with a flair for obscure African languages must put neutrality to one side and reclaim his suppressed Congolese inheritance. "Le Carré's insight into the dense, dangerous nexus of corporate and government interests is chillingly assured." –New York Times Book Review