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04482aam a22006498i 4500 001 4C163E7C079911EB91AE0FFD35ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20201006010026 008 200408s2020 nyu 000 1 eng 010 $a 2020016830 020 $a 1984880659 020 $a 9781984880659 035 $a (OCoLC)1136966499 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCQ $d SNR $d OCLCO $d TCH $d HQD $d OJ4 $d IOU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PS3611.L4423 $b M57 2020 082 00 $a 813/.6 $2 23 100 1 $a Klay, Phil, $e author. 245 10 $a Missionaries / $c Phil Klay. 264 1 $a New York : $b Penguin Press, $c 2020. 300 $a 407 pages ; $c 25 cm 520 $a "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 war, and Lisette is more than ready to cover it. For Juan Pablo, Mason's counterpart in the Colombian officer corps, translating reality into a language the Americans can understand requires a cartoonist's gift for caricature, but it's child's play next to the challenge of navigating the viper's nest of factions bidding for power, in the capital and far out in the field. And if Juan Pablo's view is dark, the outlook of Abel, a lieutenant in the militia Los Mil Jesuses, which controls territory in rural Norte de Santander, a region on the Venezuelan border where the writ of law scarcely runs, is positively Stygian. Abel has lost everything he loves in the carnage that for his entire life has flowed unceasingly in this region, where the lines between drug cartels, militias, and the state are semi-permeable. It is Abel's cruel fate to find safety only by serving a man he has come to fear and loathe. Missionaries is an astonishment, a novel of extraordinary suspense whose central, unsparing drama is infused by a geopolitical sophistication and a wisdom about the human heart that would be rare even in isolation. As Los Mil Jesuses make their move to fill a power vacuum in Norte de Santander, aided and abetted by the Colombian military for its own reasons, the Americans are made pawns of a game they don't even begin to understand. The result is an unfolding calamity that will leave no character unscathed, and will echo across the planet. A work whose accomplishment calls forth comparisons to Joseph Conrad, Graham Greene, and Robert Stone, Missionaries ultimately stands apart as its own electrifying new form of artistic reckoning with the forces we have unleashed in our world"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Soldiers $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Foreign correspondents $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Drug traffic $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Colombia $v Fiction. 650 0 $a War stories. 941 $a 27 952 $l GOPG641 $d 20240409035721.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117031552.0 952 $l KAPF566 $d 20230331014121.0 952 $l FXPH314 $d 20220909062211.0 952 $l YCPD572 $d 20220518024634.0 952 $l BJPD251 $d 20211215022504.0 952 $l WAPD715 $d 20211014010430.0 952 $l GEPG771 $d 20210722063423.0 952 $l EBPE325 $d 20210526010215.0 952 $l UNUX074 $d 20210428013146.0 952 $l D8PD522 $d 20210428011854.0 952 $l SCPC074 $d 20210422013921.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20210304013449.0 952 $l SEPC074 $d 20210224024326.0 952 $l S1PD771 $d 20210126010510.0 952 $l YTPG232 $d 20210105012214.0 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20201215011643.0 952 $l YKPE532 $d 20201209010219.0 952 $l CBPF522 $d 20201208011824.0 952 $l XXPH787 $d 20201105010824.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20201103012843.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20201103012418.0 952 $l TDPH826 $d 20201103011028.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20201103010413.0 952 $l CYPF706 $d 20201103010055.0 952 $l SAPG074 $d 20201009010629.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20201006011820.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=4C163E7C079911EB91AE0FFD35ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search