Bleeding Edge: A Novel "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? |
Contents
Section 22 | 247 |
Section 23 | 256 |
Section 24 | 265 |
Section 25 | 274 |
Section 26 | 288 |
Section 27 | 301 |
Section 28 | 314 |
Section 29 | 327 |
Section 9 | 87 |
Section 10 | 112 |
Section 11 | 121 |
Section 12 | 134 |
Section 13 | 145 |
Section 14 | 160 |
Section 15 | 172 |
Section 16 | 185 |
Section 17 | 198 |
Section 18 | 211 |
Section 19 | 219 |
Section 20 | 230 |
Section 21 | 239 |
Section 30 | 338 |
Section 31 | 347 |
Section 32 | 354 |
Section 33 | 365 |
Section 34 | 383 |
Section 35 | 395 |
Section 36 | 408 |
Section 37 | 423 |
Section 38 | 439 |
Section 39 | 448 |
Section 40 | 463 |
Section 41 | 479 |
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