Penguin Press will publish SHADOW TICKET, a new novel by Thomas Pynchon on October 7 in the US and Canada. The publisher writes in a release that the book is set in 1932 during prohibition: “Hicks McTaggart, a one-time strikebreaker turned private eye, thinks he’s found job security until he gets sent out on what should be a routine case, locating and bringing back the heiress of a Wisconsin cheese fortune who’s taken a mind to go wandering… By the time Hicks catches up with her he will find himself also entangled with Nazis, Soviet agents, British counterspies, swing musicians, […]
