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Book Review - ‘The Last War,’ by Ana Menéndez - Review - NYTimes.com](http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/28/books/review/Bahadur-t.html?partner=rss&emc=rss):

The narrator of “The Last War” has received an anonymous letter accusing her war correspondent husband of infidelity. So, unfortunately, did the book’s author. It speaks to Ana Menéndez’s maturity — as a woman and a writer — that her novel doesn’t go where it might have. It doesn’t constitute literary payback.