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In the new genetic thrillers, it's the scientist who makes a last-ditch stand against an irresponsible society--reflecting a role for scientists as the defenders of ethical principles that were born at the Nazi doctor trials at Nuremberg and endured through the Cold War.
Zairian president Mobutu Sese Seko returned home from France in a last-ditch attempt to salvage some part of the power he once held.
In many isolated regions, meanwhile, last-ditch defences in the form of round stone towers were built, a few of which are still inhabited today.
During Vietnam, it was a last-ditch appeal by people who generally had supported the war for years.
It is, for the most part, a novelization of the Menendez case, but the O.J. nonsense shadows it, and the whole incompetent O.J. prosecution team seems to have been flown in for a last-ditch battle with the forces of billable evil.