Absolution 9781782702696 His last word is a

His last word is a woman’s name: Maram

secrets and dreams

If Matthew’s wife hadn’t died

business leaders and the service's own personnel

and Nick is more interested in Charlie than either of them realizes

Absolution 9781782702696 His last word is aAbout Absolution By Alice McDermott 1963. Saigon. Tricia is a shy newlywed, married to a rising attorney working for US Navy intelligence. Charlene is a practiced corporate spouse and mother of three, a beauty and a bully. The two women form a wary alliance as they struggle to balance the pressure to be respectable wives for their ambitious husbands, with their own dubious impulses to "do good" for the people of Vietnam. Sixty years later, Charlene's