Description: Creating a "menacing world where the reader is held hostage" ("Los Angeles Times"), the legendary author of "Slouching Toward Bethlehem" now trains her eye on the far frontiers of the Monroe Doctrine, where history dissolves into conspiracy--Dallas, 1963; Iran Contra in 1984--and fashions a moral thriller as hypnotic and provocative as any by Joseph Conrad or Graham Greene.
Review Quotes:
"Gripping ... Didion at her finest." --USA Today
"Simultaneously lucid and surreal ... the result is entrancing." --The New Yorker
"Remarkable.... Didion has created a menacing world where the reader is held hostage." --Los Angeles Times
"Dark detail, understatement and intelligence work their astonishing magic." --The New York Times Book Review