{"product_id":"bleeding-edge-9780143125754","title":"Bleeding Edge","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Brilliantly written...a joy to read...\u003ci\u003eBleeding Edge\u003c\/i\u003e is totally gonzo, totally wonderful. It really is good to have Thomas Pynchon around, doing what he does best.\" - Michael Dirda, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Exemplary...dazzling and ludicrous.\" - Jonathan Lethem, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt is 2001 in New York City, in the lull between the collapse of the dot-com boom and the terrible events of September 11th. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMaxine 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWill 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? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHey. Who wants to know?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThomas Pynchon\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eV.\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Crying of Lot 49\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGravity's Rainbow\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSlow Learner\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVineland, Mason \u0026amp; Dixon\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAgainst the Day\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eInherent Vice\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBleeding Edge\u003c\/i\u003e. He received the National Book Award for \u003ci\u003eGravity's Rainbow\u003c\/i\u003e in 1974.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50627548348690,"sku":"9780143125754","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_070bd891-2627-49bc-a385-4b3ee80a31df.jpg?v=1732675738","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/bleeding-edge-9780143125754","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}