Posted on 23/09/06
White mischief
The Mission SongBy John le CarréViking Canada, 343 pages, $36'The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking of it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much." This quotation from Heart of Darkness, the epigraph to John le Carré's The Mission Song, is all too timely, as well as apt.
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