Shadow Ticket

The new novel from Thomas Pynchon bestselling and award-winning author of Gravity's Rainbow The Crying of Lot 49 Vineland and Inherent Vice . “A masterpiece.” — The Telegraph “Bonkers and brilliant fun.” — The Washington Post “Late Pynchon at his finest. Dark as a vampire’s pocket light-fingered as a jewel thief Shadow Ticket capers across the page with breezy baggy-pants assurance — and then pauses on its way down the fire escape just long enough to crack your heart open.” — Los Angeles Times Milwaukee 1932 the Great Depression going full blast repeal of Prohibition just around the corner Al Capone in the federal pen the private investigation business shifting from labor-management relations to the more domestic kind. Hicks McTaggart a onetime strikebreaker turned private eye thinks he’s found job security until he gets sent out on what should be a routine case locating and bringing