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Missionaries
- A Novel
- Narrado por: MacLeod Andrews, Cynthia Farrell, Henry Leyva, Anthony Rey Perez
- Duración: 14 h y 28 m
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One of President Obama's Favorite Books of the Year | A New York Times Notable Book | One of the Wall Street Journal 10 Best Books of the Year
"Missionaries is a courageous book: It doesn’t shy away, as so much fiction does, from the real world.” (Juan Gabriel Vásquez, The New York Times Book Review)
“A sweeping, interconnected novel of ideas in the tradition of Joseph Conrad and Norman Mailer.... 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 lord's safe house on the Venezuelan border. They're watching him with an American-made drone, about to strike using military tactics taught to them by US 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 US Army Special Forces medic, and Lisette, a foreign correspondent, America's long post-9/11 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 viper's 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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“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, The New York Times Book Review
“A sweeping, interconnected novel of ideas in the tradition of Joseph Conrad and Norman Mailer . . . 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
“[This] compact epic of a novel contains perhaps Klay's finest writing yet . . . Using his formidable gifts for scene-setting, meaningful irony and deep human empathy, Klay weaves together a set of stories over the course of nearly three decades . . . Amid raging fires and illness and constitutional crises, Klay's book roars something vital: Never forget about war or the blood and bone and the evil and the reckless idealism of who we all really are." —Los Angeles Times
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In 11th-century France, Vigdis Adelaïs, a young woman from a prosperous Christian family, falls in love with David Todros, a rabbi’s son and yeshiva student. To be together, the couple must flee their city, and Vigdis must renounce her life of privilege and comfort. Pursued by her father’s knights and in constant danger of betrayal, the lovers embark on a dangerous journey to the south of France, only to find their brief happiness destroyed by the vicious wave of anti-Semitism sweeping through Europe with the onset of the First Crusade.
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Half Spectacular Half Pointless
- De Phyllis en 09-09-20
De: Stefan Hertmans
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To Cook a Bear
- A Novel
- De: Mikael Niemi
- Narrado por: Anthony Mark Barrow, Allan Corduner
- Duración: 14 h y 5 m
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Jussi, a runaway, becomes Laestadius's faithful son and disciple, and the two set out on botanical treks filled with philosophical discussions where Jussi learns all about plants and nature; and also how to read and write and about spirituality. But their quiet days are interrupted when a maid goes missing in the forest. When she is found dead, the locals suspect a predatory bear is at large. The constable is quick to offer a reward for capturing it, but Laestadius sees other traces that point to a far worse killer on the loose.
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A Spiritual Mystery
- De Amazon Customer en 06-02-21
De: Mikael Niemi
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The Innocents
- A Novel
- De: Michael Crummey
- Narrado por: Mary Lewis
- Duración: 9 h y 5 m
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A brother and sister are orphaned in an isolated cove on Newfoundland's northern coastline. Their home is a stretch of rocky shore governed by the feral ocean, by a relentless pendulum of abundance and murderous scarcity. Still children with only the barest notion of the outside world, they have nothing but the family's boat and the little knowledge passed on haphazardly by their mother and father to keep them.
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Amazing
- De Wendy en 02-04-20
De: Michael Crummey
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Legacy
- A Novel
- De: James A. Michener
- Narrado por: David Ackroyd
- Duración: 5 h y 10 m
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Over a tense weekend of reflection, Major Norman Starr of the National Security Council prepares to appear before a congressional committee to publicly account for his covert actions. Hoping to learn something from his proud, troubled heritage, Starr looks for guidance in the lives of his ancestors: all-Americans who weren't always right. From a framer of the Constitution to a slave owner, from a Supreme Court justice to a courageous suffragist, each recalls an important legacy that Starr must somehow reconcile with his own perilous dilemma.
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Totally incomplete
- De Pat en 05-19-24
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Uncertain Ground
- Citizenship in an Age of Endless, Invisible War
- De: Phil Klay
- Narrado por: Josh Casaubon
- Duración: 7 h y 44 m
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When Phil Klay left the marines a decade ago after serving as an officer in Iraq, he found himself a part of the community of veterans who have no choice but to grapple with the meaning of their wartime experiences—for themselves and for the country. American identity has always been bound up in war—from the revolutionary war of our founding, to the civil war that ended slavery, to the two world wars that launched America as a superpower. What did the current wars say about who we are as a country, and how should we respond as citizens?
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A compelling set of essays
- De Jodie en 08-07-23
De: Phil Klay
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Redeployment
- De: Phil Klay
- Narrado por: Craig Klein
- Duración: 7 h y 46 m
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Phil Klay's Redeployment takes listeners to the frontlines of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, asking us to understand what happened there, and what happened to the soldiers who returned. Interwoven with themes of brutality and faith, guilt and fear, helplessness and survival, the characters in these stories struggle to make meaning out of chaos. Redeployment has become a classic in the tradition of war writing. Across nations and continents, Klay sets in devastating relief the two worlds a soldier inhabits: One of extremes and one of loss.
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A Must Read - Fantastic Heart Rendering Shorts
- De GH en 12-03-14
De: Phil Klay
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The Convert
- A Novel
- De: Stefan Hertmans
- Narrado por: Nicholas Guy Smith
- Duración: 10 h y 33 m
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In 11th-century France, Vigdis Adelaïs, a young woman from a prosperous Christian family, falls in love with David Todros, a rabbi’s son and yeshiva student. To be together, the couple must flee their city, and Vigdis must renounce her life of privilege and comfort. Pursued by her father’s knights and in constant danger of betrayal, the lovers embark on a dangerous journey to the south of France, only to find their brief happiness destroyed by the vicious wave of anti-Semitism sweeping through Europe with the onset of the First Crusade.
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Half Spectacular Half Pointless
- De Phyllis en 09-09-20
De: Stefan Hertmans
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To Cook a Bear
- A Novel
- De: Mikael Niemi
- Narrado por: Anthony Mark Barrow, Allan Corduner
- Duración: 14 h y 5 m
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Jussi, a runaway, becomes Laestadius's faithful son and disciple, and the two set out on botanical treks filled with philosophical discussions where Jussi learns all about plants and nature; and also how to read and write and about spirituality. But their quiet days are interrupted when a maid goes missing in the forest. When she is found dead, the locals suspect a predatory bear is at large. The constable is quick to offer a reward for capturing it, but Laestadius sees other traces that point to a far worse killer on the loose.
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A Spiritual Mystery
- De Amazon Customer en 06-02-21
De: Mikael Niemi
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The Innocents
- A Novel
- De: Michael Crummey
- Narrado por: Mary Lewis
- Duración: 9 h y 5 m
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A brother and sister are orphaned in an isolated cove on Newfoundland's northern coastline. Their home is a stretch of rocky shore governed by the feral ocean, by a relentless pendulum of abundance and murderous scarcity. Still children with only the barest notion of the outside world, they have nothing but the family's boat and the little knowledge passed on haphazardly by their mother and father to keep them.
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Amazing
- De Wendy en 02-04-20
De: Michael Crummey
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Legacy
- A Novel
- De: James A. Michener
- Narrado por: David Ackroyd
- Duración: 5 h y 10 m
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Over a tense weekend of reflection, Major Norman Starr of the National Security Council prepares to appear before a congressional committee to publicly account for his covert actions. Hoping to learn something from his proud, troubled heritage, Starr looks for guidance in the lives of his ancestors: all-Americans who weren't always right. From a framer of the Constitution to a slave owner, from a Supreme Court justice to a courageous suffragist, each recalls an important legacy that Starr must somehow reconcile with his own perilous dilemma.
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Totally incomplete
- De Pat en 05-19-24
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The Chosen One
- De: Walt Gragg
- Narrado por: Peter Berkrot
- Duración: 16 h y 1 m
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Two months ago, a new leader arose in the Islamic world, the Mahdi - or the Chosen One. He has rallied fundamentalist Muslim forces across the Middle East who have driven deep into Saudi Arabia and Egypt. Standing against them is an allied force made up primarily of the American military. It's a desperate fight. From armored battles in the desert to American carriers desperately dodging waves of cruise missiles, the Mahdi proves to have many tricks up his sleeve.
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Predictable
- De Amazon Customer en 03-25-20
De: Walt Gragg
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Shaker
- A Novel
- De: Scott Frank
- Narrado por: Dion Graham
- Duración: 10 h y 27 m
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Meet Roy Cooper, stoic, unassuming "errand runner" for various New York criminals. Roy arrives in Los Angeles to shoot a man named Martin Shine a week after a powerful earthquake has knocked out cell service, buckled the freeways, and thrown LA into chaos. Roy doesn't know who Shine is or why he has to die, but he does his job and does it well. Except for one thing: After the hit, Roy can't find where he parked his car.
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Fantastic Dark Thriller
- De Victor @ theAudiobookBlog dot com en 09-09-19
De: Scott Frank
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By Honor Bound
- Two Navy SEALs, the Medal of Honor, and a Story of Extraordinary Courage
- De: Tom Norris, Dick Couch - contributor, Mike Thornton
- Narrado por: Jeff Gurner
- Duración: 8 h y 18 m
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In April of 1972, near the end of the Vietnam War, SEAL Lieutenant Tom Norris performed an unprecedented ground rescue of two American airmen who were shot down behind enemy lines in North Vietnam, a feat for which he would be awarded the Medal of Honor. Just six months later, Norris was sent on a dangerous special reconnaissance mission that would take his team deep into enemy territory. In the running gun battle that ensued, Lieutenant Norris was severely wounded; a bullet entered his left eye and exited the left side of his head.
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The real deal
- De robert en 02-28-18
De: Tom Norris, y otros
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Hystopia
- A Novel
- De: David Means
- Narrado por: Nicholas Techosky
- Duración: 10 h y 47 m
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At the bitter end of the 1960s, after surviving multiple assassination attempts, President John F. Kennedy is entering his third term in office. The Vietnam War rages on, and the president has created a vast federal agency, the Psych Corps, dedicated to maintaining the nation's mental hygiene by any means necessary. Soldiers returning from the war have their battlefield traumas "enfolded" - wiped from their memories through drugs and therapy - while veterans too damaged to be enfolded roam at will in Michigan, evading the government and reenacting atrocities.
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Then we came to the end
- De Nicole Del Sesto en 01-18-17
De: David Means
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Inland
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- De: Téa Obreht
- Narrado por: Anna Chlumsky, Edoardo Ballerini, Euan Morton
- Duración: 13 h y 7 m
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In the lawless, drought-ridden lands of the Arizona Territory in 1893, two extraordinary lives unfold. Nora is an unflinching frontierswoman awaiting the return of the men in her life - her husband, who has gone in search of water for the parched household, and her elder sons, who have vanished after an explosive argument. Nora is biding her time with her youngest son, who is convinced that a mysterious beast is stalking the land around their home.
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I tried,
- De Julianne en 10-09-19
De: Téa Obreht
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Aria
- A Novel
- De: Nazanine Hozar
- Narrado por: Neeky Dalir
- Duración: 13 h y 24 m
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It is the 1950s in a restless Iran, a country rich in oil but deeply divided by class and religion. The government is unpopular and corrupt and under foreign sway. One night, an illiterate army driver hears the pitiful cry of a baby abandoned in an alley and menaced by ravenous wild dogs. He snatches up the child and takes her home, naming her Aria - the first step on an unlikely path from deprivation to privilege. Over the next two decades, the orphan girl acquires three mother figures whose secrets she will learn only much later.
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Agent Sniper
- The Cold War Superagent and the Ruthless Head of the CIA
- De: Tim Tate
- Narrado por: Tim Tate
- Duración: 13 h y 46 m
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Michal Goleniewski, cover name Sniper, was one of the most important spies of the early Cold War. For two and a half years at the end of the 1950s, as a Lt. Colonel at the top of Poland’s espionage service, he smuggled more than 5,000 top-secret Soviet bloc intelligence and military documents, as well as 160 rolls of microfilm, out from behind the Iron Curtain. In January 1961, he abandoned his wife and children and made a dramatic defection across divided Berlin with his East German mistress to the safety of American territory.
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Very entertaining cold war spy story
- De Jason en 12-18-21
De: Tim Tate
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Disappointment River
- Finding and Losing the Northwest Passage
- De: Brian Castner
- Narrado por: Brian Castner
- Duración: 12 h y 6 m
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Disappointment River is a dual historical narrative and travel memoir that at once transports listeners back to the heroic age of North American exploration and places them in a still rugged but increasingly fragile Arctic wilderness in the process of profound alteration by the dual forces of energy extraction and climate change.
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Excellent
- De Jean en 05-06-18
De: Brian Castner
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The Secrets of Flight
- A Novel
- De: Maggie Leffler
- Narrado por: Barbara Caruso, Brittany Pressley
- Duración: 10 h y 33 m
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Estranged from her family since just after World War II, Mary Browning has spent her entire adult life hiding from her past. Now 87 years old and a widow, she is still haunted by secrets and fading memories of the family she left behind. Her one outlet is the writing group she's presided over for a decade, though she's never written a word herself. When a new member walks in - a 15-year-old girl who reminds her so much of her beloved sister, Sarah - Mary is certain fate delivered Elyse Strickler to her for a reason.
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Great story and fantastic audio narration!
- De NMwritergal en 05-07-16
De: Maggie Leffler
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Small Country
- A Novel
- De: Gaël Faye
- Narrado por: Dominic Hoffman
- Duración: 6 h y 2 m
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Already an international sensation and prize-winning best seller in France, an evocative coming-of-age story of a young boy, a lost childhood, and a shattered homeland. Burundi, 1992. For 10-year-old Gabriel, life in his comfortable expatriate neighborhood of Bujumbura with his French father, Rwandan mother and little sister Ana, is something close to paradise. These are carefree days of laughter and adventure - sneaking Supermatch cigarettes and gorging on stolen mangoes - as he and his mischievous gang of friends transform their tiny cul-de-sac into their kingdom.
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Amazing prose
- De Anonymous User en 01-19-23
De: Gaël Faye
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Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey
- A Novel
- De: Kathleen Rooney
- Narrado por: Juliana Canfield, Noah Michael Levine
- Duración: 11 h y 13 m
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From the green countryside of England and the gray canyons of Wall Street come two unlikely heroes: one a pigeon and the other a soldier. Answering the call to serve in the war to end all wars, neither Cher Ami, the messenger bird, nor Charles Whittlesey, the army officer, can anticipate how their lives will briefly intersect in a chaotic battle in the forests of France, where their wills will be tested, their fates will be shaped, and their lives will emerge forever altered.
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Fabulous
- De Joan en 09-09-20
De: Kathleen Rooney
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The Shores of Tripoli
- Lieutenant Putnam and the Barbary Pirates
- De: James L. Haley
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
- Duración: 15 h y 43 m
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It is 1801, and President Thomas Jefferson has assembled a deep-water navy to fight the growing threat of piracy, as American civilians are regularly kidnapped by Islamist brigands and held for ransom, enslaved, or killed, all at their captors' whim. The Berber States of North Africa, especially Tripoli, claimed their faith gave them the right to pillage anyone who did not submit to their religion.
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Listen to the sample
- De Mike en 10-30-18
De: James L. Haley
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Missionaries
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- Kenneth Knight
- 11-17-20
Great listen for everyone.
Awesome story for military enthusiast's, civilians, journalists and more. Alot of gore and cursing at times, so listener discretion is advised. Overall great story and take on wars in the middle east and south america.
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- Dale
- 01-07-23
Colombia
Too fragmented for my taste. Boring. Couldn’t stay interested in it. Maybe others will find it compelling.
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- Donald L. Davis
- 10-23-20
Good First Novel
Engaging and thought-provoking story. I think I would have enjoyed it more if I had read the print version.
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- Anthony
- 11-11-20
Compressed but palpable for civilians and military
An outstanding read. It gets far more philosophical and internal than is necessary, but the web Klay spins catches you none the less. The entire book keeps you interested, but the last few chapters describe about as honest an assessment of an Ops Center as is legal to describe. It is raw and honest about the violence and misdirection that causes and results in modern warfare. Missionaries doesn't pull punches, just an outstanding read that military professionals and civilians will enjoy alike.
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- Michele NYC
- 05-18-22
Intense
Baffling, breathtaking examination of today's warfare. I strongly recommend that you try it soon.
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- Scott Cooper
- 11-20-20
Remarkable
One of the best books I’ve ever read. Phil writes beautifully. And he captures many of the sentiments I’ve felt but have been unable to express during my many overseas deployments in the Marine Corps. This is a masterpiece.
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- Hugh Hill
- 09-23-21
It gets better
Hang in there past the pain porn. That continues but the arcs blend and become more interesting
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- Derek Long
- 02-11-21
Captivating, realistic, and touching
So a little bit about myself: I guess you could call me career military, having been in roughly a decade. I read Redeployment at the beginning of my career, so I guess it's only fitting Missionaries dropped somewhere in the middle. Why do I mention this? I mention it because I don't think there's a modern author who so accurately captures the essence of today's United States Military. The machinations, bureaucracy, the meandering nature of the war machine--it's all there, in a cold, honest, saddening way.
But Klay goes farther, and captures the human spirit incredibly poetically. There were several moments I had to pause the player and rewind what I just heard because the description was just so beautiful, even if the material was horrific at times. The man truly has a way with words.
For those without a military background, I do wonder if they'd get lost a little. Hell, there's so many people in the military that wander aimlessly, would I blame civilians for not understanding what happens? No. But give it a try. I wholly recommend this novel.
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- Jim
- 03-31-22
Complex!
Reputed to be a favorite read by former President Obama. The book is a complex sometimes time shifted description of the almost endless number of competing violent factions operating in Colombia. These include the military, the paramilitary, the narcos, and a long list of independent militia or vigilante groups. They're all struggling for their piece of the action and the money. The violence is unsettling and the role of the US special forces and CIA is not always something to be proud of. it takes a while, or even the entire book, to keep the various groups and characters straight. But there is good attention to the inner lives of some of these frightening characters.
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- Elizabeth Wilson
- 03-17-21
Enjoyable reading
I appreciated the separate stories eventually becoming a most intriguing development. Excellent writing. Would recommend it highly.
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