Review: ‘Missionaries’ sees our forever wars as vocation

Phil Klay’s “Redeployment” may be our best literary window into the Iraq war. It won the young ex-Marine a 2014 National Book Award. “Missionaries” is Klay’s next act. A big, ambitious novel centered in Colombia, it plumbs U.S. forever wars’ psychic imprint on peripatetic American warriors, militarism as a way of being and the consequences of ill-conceived foreign meddling, says Associated Press reviewer Frank Bajak. In the tradition of Robert Stone and