"Brilliantly written...a joy to read...Bleeding Edge is totally
gonzo, totally wonderful. It really is good to have Thomas Pynchon
around, doing what he does best." - Michael Dirda, The Washington
Post
"Exemplary...dazzling and ludicrous." - Jonathan Lethem, The New York
Times Book Review
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?
