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Books boeken phil klay penguin paperback oktober 2021: One of President Obamas Favorite Books of the Year A New York Times Notable Book One of the Wall Street Journal Ten Best Books of the Year Missionaries is a courageous book.
It doesnt shy away as so much fiction does from the real world.
-Juan Gabriel Vasquez The New York Times Book Review A sweeping interconnected novel of ideas in the tradition of Joseph Conrad and Norman Mailer .
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By taking a long view of the rational insanity of global warfare Missionaries brilliantly fills one of the largest gaps in contemporary literature.
-The Wall Street Journal The debut novel from the National Book Award-winning author of Redeployment A group of Colombian soldiers prepares to raid a drug lords safe house on the Venezuelan border.
Theyre watching him with an American-made drone about to strike using military tactics taught to them by U.
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soldiers who honed their skills to lethal perfection in Iraq.
In Missionaries Phil Klay examines the globalization of violence through the interlocking stories of four characters and the conflicts that define their lives.
For Mason a U.
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Army Special Forces medic and Lisette a foreign correspondent Americas long post-911 wars in the Middle East exerted a terrible draw that neither is able to shake.
Where can such a person go next.
All roads lead to Colombia where the US has partnered with local government to keep predatory narco gangs at bay.
Mason now a liaison to the Colombian military is ready for the good war and Lisette is more than ready to cover it.
Juan Pablo a Colombian officer must juggle managing the Americans presence and navigating a vipers nest of factions bidding for power.
Meanwhile Abel a lieutenant in a local militia has lost almost everything in the seemingly endless carnage of his home province where the lines between drug cartels militias and the state are semi-permeable.
Drawing on six years of research in America and Colombia into the effects of the modern way of war on regular people Klay has written a novel of extraordinary suspense infused with geopolitical sophistication and storytelling instincts that are second to none.
Missionaries is a window not only into modern war but into the individual lives that go on long after the drones have left the skies.
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