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Publisher: Penguin Books
Author: Thomas Pynchon
ISBN: 9780143125754
Fiction, Mystery
Bleeding Edge
by
Thomas Pynchon
Bleeding Edge by
Thomas Pynchon
Reviews
"A hilarious, shrewd, and disquieting metaphysical mystery."
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Summary
It is 2001 in New York City, in the lull between the collapse of the dot-com boom and the terrible events of September 11th.
Maxine Tarnow runs a fine little fraud investigation business on the Upper West Side. All is ticking over nice and normal, until she starts looking into the finances of a computer-security firm and its billionaire geek CEO. She soon finds herself mixed up with a drug runner in an art deco motorboat, a professional nose obsessed with Hitler’s aftershave, a neoliberal enforcer with footwear issues, and an array of bloggers, hackers, code monkeys, and entrepreneurs, some of whom begin to show up mysteriously dead.