Bleeding Edge

A Literary Fiction Novel by Thomas Pynchon

Subgenres:

Crime Fiction,
New York City,
Post-9/11

Published 2013

Length 498 pages

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Early 2000s New York tech scene with offbeat humor
Quirky investigators chasing fraud through hacker subcultures
Eccentric side characters like art deco drug runners and Hitler-obsessed noses

Publisher Description

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. Foul play, of course.

Will perpetrators be revealed, forget about brought to justice? Will Maxine have to take the handgun out of her purse? Will Jerry Seinfeld make an unscheduled guest appearance? Will accounts secular and karmic be brought into balance?

Hey. Who wants to know?

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