Title: Skip It
Review: I never thought I would feel this way about a John LeCarre book, but when I had finished The Mission Song I was sorry I had read it. I have loved his books ever since Spy Who Came in from the Cold and no one ever wrote better or more substantial fiction about the cold war and its real effects on the people involved than he did. But despite having had some success with other titles since the end of the cold war, the Mission Song was a bore. I didn't really care or understand what I was supposed to get from the main character other than the general sense of how the west has screwed the African continent and continues to do so even under the guise of providing relief. The story is flat, the characters uninvolving and in general not worth reading. It's such a shame, but even the great ones don't always hit a homerun in each at bat so we give them some slack and move on.
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