**From the author of the National Book Award-winning short story collection _Redeployment_ comes an astonishing novel of Conradian suspense, set in Colombia among other fronts of America's wars, as four lives become fatally entangled thanks to our country's gift for projecting its power into situati
Missionaries
โ Scribed by Phil Klay
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group; Penguin Press
- Year
- 2020
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 250 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- Colombia,Colombia.
- ISBN
- 1984880667
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
From the author of the National Book Award-winning short story collection Redeployment comes an astonishing novel of Conradian suspense, set in Colombia among other fronts of America's wars, as four lives become fatally entangled thanks to our country's gift for projecting its power into situations it half understands.
Neither Mason, a U.S. Army Special Forces medic, nor Lisette, a foreign correspondent, has emerged from America's long post-9/11 wars in Iraq and Afghanistan unscathed. Yet war also exerts a terrible draw that neither can shake--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, with its patented fusion of intelligence dominance and quick-striking special operators, has partnered with local government to stamp out a vicious civil war and keep the predatory narco gangs at bay. Mason, now a liaison to the Colombian military, is ready for the good...
โฆ Subjects
Colombia
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