Wicked good, that Thomas Mallon.” -The Washington Post “A story about the limits of human ambition. Mallon follows his troupe across thousands of miles, capturing what happens with rapier wit.” - San Francisco Chronicle
Mallon’s most audacious and important work yet.” - The New York Times Book Review Written with impeccable language and savage wit, Finale is historical fiction of the highest order, brilliantly rendering the human drama behind these famous-and familiar-faces. And we see Reagan himself: apparently warm but in fact distant and mercurial, by turns seeming to know more than he lets on and let on more than he knows. We see the young Christopher Hitchens-his incisive, acerbic voice lending a powerful counterpoint to events as they unfold. We see Nancy Reagan-brooding, protective, consulting her astrologist at every turn.
In this extraordinary novel, Thomas Mallon takes us to the tense, high-stakes months in 1986 when-with the Iran-Contra affair, the AIDS epidemic, and the Reykjavik summit with Gorbachev-Reagan and those around him were shaping history.
Louis Post-Dispatchīefore there was Reagan the conservative icon, there was Reagan the president: genial, unknowable, faced with doubters, scandals, and the final throes of the Cold War. One of the Best Books of the Year: San Francisco Chronicle, The Daily Beast, The Miami Herald, St.
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