He was to map the reality these men were trying to create. For two years he read their classified documents and attended secret meetings. They asked Elster to conceptualize their efforts-to form an intellectual framework for their troop deployments, counterinsurgency, orders for rendition. Richard Elster, seventy-three, was a scholar-an outsider-when he was called to a meeting with government war planners. In the middle of a desert “somewhere south of nowhere,” to a forlorn house made of metal and clapboard, a secret war advisor has gone in search of space and time. Now, in Point Omega, he takes on the secret strategists in America’s war machine. Writing about conspiracy theory in Libra, government cover-ups in White Noise, the Cold War in Underworld, and 9/11 in Falling Man, “DeLillo’s books have been weirdly prophetic about twenty-first century America” ( The New York Times Book Review ).
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