The Last Thing He Wanted Joan Didion by Joan Didion 9780007454242, 0007454244 instant download after payment.

This intricate, fast-paced story, whose many scenes and details fit together like so many pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, is Joan Didion’s incisive and chilling look at a modern world where things are not working as they should and where the oblique and the official language is as sinister as the events it is covering up.

"An impressive, fast-talking, hard-boiled, wise-cracking, tough-guy of a novel."  -  Mail On Sunday

The narrator introduces Elena McMahon, estranged from a life of celebrity fundraisers and from her powerful West Coast husband, Wynn Janklow, whom she has left, taking Catherine, her daughter, to become a reporter for The Washington Post. She finds herself boarding a plane for Florida to see her father. She becomes embroiled in his business even though "she had trained herself since childhood not to have any interest in what he was doing." It is from this moment that she is caught up in something much larger than she could have imagined. 

"Fast-paced, witty, inventive… The Last Thing He Wanted is a creation of high seriousness, a thriller composed with all the resources of a unique gift for imaginative literature."  -  The New York Review of Books

Into this startling vision of conspiracies, arms dealing, and assassinations, Joan Didion makes connections among Dallas, Iran-Contra, and Castro, and points out how "spectral companies with high-concept names tended to interlock." As this book builds to its terrifying finish, we see the underpinnings of a dark historical underbelly.