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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, plus elements of the Russian mob and various bloggers, hackers, code monkeys, and entrepreneurs, some of whom begin to show up mysteriously dead. Penguin Press, 27.95 (496p) ISBN 978-1-59420-423-4 Reviewed by David Kipen.
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Otherwise, just your average working mom - two boys in elementary school, an off-and-on situation with her sort of semi-ex-husband Horst, life as normal as it ever gets in the neighborhood - till Maxine starts looking into the finances of a computer-security firm and its billionaire geek CEO, whereupon things begin rapidly to jam onto the subway and head downtown. Thomas Pynchon Bleeding Edge: A Novel Paperback Augby Thomas Pynchon (Author) 1,062 ratings Editors' pick Best Mystery, Thriller & Suspense See all formats and editions Kindle 4.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 11.87 64 Used from 1.57 21 New from 11.87 9 Collectible from 17. She used to be legally certified but her license got pulled a while back, which has actually turned out to be a blessing because now she can follow her own code of ethics - carry a Beretta, do business with sleazebags, hack into people's bank accounts - without having too much guilt about any of it. Maxine Tarnow is running a nice little fraud investigation business on the Upper West Side, chasing down different kinds of small-scale con artists. In Bleeding Edge, Pynchon seems like a kid playing in a ball pit, having an awful lot of fun tossing around whatever is brightly colored and within reach. There may not be quite as much money around as there was at the height of the tech bubble, but there's no shortage of swindlers looking to grab a piece of what's left. Silicon Alley is a ghost town, Web 1.0 is having adolescent angst, Google has yet to IPO, Microsoft is still considered the Evil Empire. After a tip from an old friend, unaccredited. 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. In typical Pynchon fashion, Bleeding Edge is about a woman in the middle of a conspiracy so nebulous its creators may not even understand it. Thomas Pynchon brings us to New York in the early days of the Internet.
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