There he is joined by a filmmaker, Jim Finley, intent on documenting his experience. He has retreated to the desert, "somewhere south of nowhere", in search of space and geologic time. Richard Elster was a scholar-an outsider-when he was called to a meeting with government war planners, asked to apply "ideas and principles to such matters as troop deployment and counterinsurgency". Now, in Point Omega, he looks into the mind and heart of a "defense intellectual", one of the men involved in the management of the country's war machine. In his earlier novels, he has written about conspiracy theory, the Cold War and global terrorism. Don DeLillo looks into the mind and heart of a "defense intellectual," one of the men involved in the management of the country's war machine.ĭon DeLillo has been "weirdly prophetic about twenty-first-century America" (The New York Times Book Review).
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