The Last Thing He Wanted

Description for THE LAST THING HE WANTED by Joan Didion:

In that latter year Elena McMahon walks off the presidential campaign she has been covering for a major newspaper to do a favor for her father. Elena's father does deals. And it is while acting as his agent in one such deal--a deal that shortly goes spectacularly wrong--that she finds herself on an island where tourism has been superseded by arms dealing, covert action, and assassination. The Last Thing He Wanted is a tour de force--persuasive in its detail, dazzling in its ambiguities, enchanting in its style.