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Missionaries

By: Phil Klay
Narrated by: Anthony Rey Perez, Cynthia Farrell, Henry Leyva, MacLeod Andrews
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A BARACK OBAMA BOOK OF THE YEAR

Neither Mason, a US Special Forces medic, nor Lisette, a foreign correspondent, has emerged from America’s long wars in Iraq and Afghanistan unscathed. Yet, for them, war still exerts a terrible draw – the noble calling, the camaraderie, the life-and-death stakes. Where else in the world can such a person go?

All roads lead to Colombia, where the US has partnered with the local government to stamp out a vicious civil war and keep the predatory narco gangs at bay. Mason is ready for the good war, and Lisette is more than ready to cover it.

A novel of extraordinary suspense, Missionaries is an astonishment whose unsparing drama is infused with a rare wisdom about the human heart.

 Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Suspense Thriller & Suspense War & Military War Military Heartfelt Middle East Latin American
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Critic reviews

"If Redeployment was about what happened when we ship wars abroad, then Missionaries is what happens when war comes roaring right back. Expansive, explosive, and epic" (MARLON JAMES)
"Wrenching and insightful"
"Missionaries has a sweep and incisiveness to it I had almost forgotten novels were capable of. I haven't been so gripped by a book in years. It is immensely smart and far-seeing, and utterly unsparing. Extraordinary" (GARTH GREENWELL)
"By means of a well-oiled plot, complex characters and adrenaline-fuelled action, Klay opens our eyes to the globalised nature of modern conflict"
"Missionaries is a courageous book: it doesn’t shy away, as so much fiction does, from the real world . . . Is there such a thing as a "good war", like the one Mason seeks? Missionaries is skeptical at best; it does believe, however, in fiction’s ability to illuminate these dark places. And so the novel goes on, undeterred, exploring and revealing whole human worlds that would remain inaccessible without it" (Juan Gabriel Vásquez)
"This impressive debut shines a light on the globalisation of violence . . . Klay, himself a former US marine, has crafted a gripping novel that doubles as a prodigiously well-researched attack on the horrors of war and on America’s covert counter-terrorism tactics. Stunning"
"Missionaries is an urgent, detailed, compassionate and quietly furious novel about America and her Forever Wars. Intensely readable, exciting, funny and heartbreaking – it will change you" (A.L. KENNEDY)
"Missionaries shook me to my core. Klay takes the reader into the heart of Colombian darkness; the abuses of power, the forgotten lives of girls and women and how quickly human dignity – and conscience – get eroded in extreme times. This is audacious, heartbreaking, epic fiction. It touched me greatly" (MARY COSTELLO)
"Beautiful, violent and almost perfect . . . Dark and thrilling . . . Masterful . . . Intricate and ambitious, it’s a rich network of converging stories in which the plot itself becomes the destiny of its characters"
"Klay does not shy away from the thorny moral questions and psychological impacts of conflict, and the result is at once terrifying and thought-provoking"
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Beside the reporter there was no link between the war in Afghanistan and drug lord in Colombia , there was no lead character I could follow or wish to know what have happened to them , beside worthless lost of lives I could not see the message or the story line .

I have listen to it all hoping something will happen.

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