It is 2001 in New York City, in the lull between the collapse of
the dotcom boom and the terrible events of September 11th. 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.
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. Maxine Tarnow is running a
nice little fraud investigation business on the Upper West Side,
chasing down different kinds of small-scale con artists. She used
to be legally certified but her licence 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. Otherwise, just your average working
mum - 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 neighbourhood - 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. 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.
Foul play, of course. With occasional excursions into the Deep Web
and out to Long Island, Thomas Pynchon, channelling his inner
Jewish mother, brings us a historical romance of New York in the
early days of the Internet, not that distant in calendar time but
galactically remote from where we've journeyed to since. Will
perpetrators be revealed, forget about brought to justice? Will
Maxine have to take the handgun out of her purse? Will she and
Horst get back together? Will Jerry Seinfeld make an unscheduled
guest appearance? Will accounts secular and karmic be brought into
balance? Hey. Who wants to know?
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