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In her first book in twelve years, the renowned writer of Play It As It Lays and Slouching Toward Bethlehem teaches her attention to the far frontiers of the Monroe Doctrine, where background melts into conspiracy (Dallas in 1963, Iran Contra in 1984), and styles a meaningful thriller as hypnotic and provocative as any by Joseph Conrad or Graham Greene.In that latter yr Elena McMahon walks off the presidential campaign she's been addressing for a significant paper to complete a benefit for her dad. Elena's dad does offers. While working as his representative in one single such deal—an offer that briefly moves stunningly wrong—that she sees himself on an island where tourism hasbeen replaced by covert activity, hands working, and murder and it's. The Final Thing He Wanted is just a tour-de force—persuasive in its depth, stunning in its ambiguities, charming in its design.