From the New York Times Bestselling author of Lovecraft Country,
now an HBO series***.***
High above Manhattan android and human steelworkers are constructing a
new Tower of Babel for billionaire Harry Gant, as a monument to
humanity's power to dream. In the festering sewers below a darker game
is afoot: a Wall Street takeover artist has been murdered, and Gant's
crusading ex-wife, Joan Fine, has been hired to find out why. The year
is 2023, and Ayn Rand has been resurrected and bottled in a hurricane
lamp to serve as Joan's assistant; an eco-terrorist named Philo Dufrense
travels in a pink-and-green submarine designed by Howard Hughes; a
Volkswagen Beetle is possessed by the spirit of Abbey Hoffman;
Meisterbrau, a mutant great white shark, is running loose in the sewers
beneath Times Square; and a one-armed 181-year-old Civil War veteran
joins Joan and Ayn in their quest for the truth. All of whom, and many
more besides, are caught up in a vast conspiracy involving Walt Disney,
J. Edgar Hoover, and a mob of homicidal robots.