William T. Vollmann's 3,096-page novel A Table for Fortune follows CIA analyst Elliott Stevens (codenamed DAVE) from 1968 to 2019 as he processes intelligence reports and witnesses five decades of U.S. foreign policy, including the failures preceding 9/11 and subsequent wars. The work examines American hegemony, institutional conscience, and a family's rupture through the perspective of a skeptical intelligence officer who comes to distrust his own agency.