Thomas Pynchon's first novel in twelve years, set in 1932 during the Great Depression. Milwaukee private detective Hicks McTaggart is hired to track down a missing Wisconsin cheese heiress, but his investigation pulls him from Prohibition-era America into a dizzying trans-European conspiracy spanning Hungary, the Balkans, and beyond. A darkly comic, linguistically inventive noir that probes the fascist undercurrents of the Western world.
