- Title:
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Missionaries
- Written by:
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Phil Klay
- Read by:
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MacLeod Andrews; Anthony Rey Perez; Henry Leyva; Cynthia Farrell
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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12
- Duration:
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14 hours 29 minutes
- Published:
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October 29 2020
- Available Date:
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October 29 2020
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9780655699774
- Genres:
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Fiction; Literary Fiction
- Publisher:
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Bolinda/Canongate audio
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Award winning author
An astonishing novel about the moral cost of war, from the author of the National Book Award-winning Redeployment.
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 tale of extraordinary suspense, Missionaries is an astonishment whose unsparing drama is infused with a rare wisdom about the human heart.
'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, Booker-listed author
‘Shook me to my core. Klay takes the reader into the heart of Colombian darkness. This is audacious, heartbreaking, epic fiction.’
Mary Costello, author of The River Capture