Shadow Ticket

Shadow TicketThe new novel from Thomas Pynchon Milwaukee 1932, the Great Depression going full blast, repeal of Prohibition just around the corner, Al Capone in the federal pen, the private investigation business shifting from labor management relations to the more domestic kind. Hicks McTaggart, a onetime strikebreaker turned private eye, thinks hes found job security until he gets sent out on what should be a routine case, locating and bringing back the heiress

she's also the last of her kind

and fanning the flames of devotion to his beloved sister

and a young volunteer helper

As Alpha of the Northwest pack

and Libby finds herself right back where she started—on the run from a killer

among many others―including her irrepressible protagonist

that Harvard is older than the U

he’s grateful—and more than a little eager to stick around for an after-hours drink–turned–tryst

He never sold a piece

and she’ll be the one hunted

who has been hiding from her dark past for decades to Ruby

But where there’s a whisk there’s a way