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A novel about the final hours of the Trujillo dictatorship — power, complicity, and the morning after a tyrant falls.
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The Last Night of the Benefactor is a work of historical fiction set in the Dominican Republic on the eve of Trujillo's assassination — May 30, 1961.
Drawing on declassified CIA documents, oral histories, and archival research, the novel examines power, complicity, and the uncertain territory between history and myth.
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"History is rarely settled. The past is not a collection of facts waiting patiently to be discovered. It is an ongoing conversation."
— Milton Amador