His first novel in over a decade, Pynchon's Shadow Ticket is a swirling, heady noir diving into 1930's Milwaukee- Al Capone's been imprisoned, the Great Depression arrives with a bang, jazz rules the underground, the Western world sits on the cusp of war and a cheese heiress mysteriously disappears with (or perhaps without) her jazz musician lover. Hick McTaggart, a private investigator running from problems of his own, is tasked with finding the heiress and returning her to the Airmont. Tracking her to Hungary, McTaggart finds himself in a web of international espionage- in the crossfires of Russian and British double-agents, Nazis who bowl and a coven of psychics.
Like all Pynchon novels, Shadow Ticket is at once a thrilling caper, absurd in the unreplicable style of one of America's greatest living political novelists; and on the other, a sharp meta-narrative about the clutches of US political power and the barons and titans of industry who fuel it.
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