Last Thing He Wanted

"...[A] study in political intrigue featuring the standard Didion heroine: a female stray who finds herself walking through a colorful hell. What distinguishes this novel from Ms. Didion's earlier work is that she doesn't loll around in languorous alienation. The writing is insistent, jabbing. She's trying to get at something. But what?...[M]uch of 'The Last Thing He Wanted' is written like bold captions for the reading-impaired--Hemingway for half-wits. And yet the novel does compel....What keeps the reader going isn't the converging lines of drama--it's tracing the true intent of her thought processes to their final destination....[A] novel that begins so worldly and knowing ends up fishing around for a handkerchief to dab away its own Hollywood tears."Didion, Joan is the author of 'Last Thing He Wanted', published 1997 under ISBN 9780679752851 and ISBN 0679752854.