bNATIONAL BESTSELLER - Didion at her finest --iUSA Today - iAn intricate, fast-paced novel about trying to create a context for democracy and getting hands a little dirty in the process, complete with conspiracies, arms dealing, and assassinations. From the author of iThe Year of Magical Thinkingi and iLet Me Tell You What I Meani pbThe 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 iThe Washington Posti. She finds herself boarding a plane for Florida to see her father. She becomes embroiled in her 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. pDidion makes connections among Dallas, Iran-Contra, and Castro, and points out how spectral companies with high-conc