Uitgever Penguin Random House kondigt voor dit najaar een nieuwe roman van Thomas Pynchon aan. De roman is getiteld Shadow ticket. De roman speelt zich af in ‘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 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. Before he knows it, he’s been shanghaied onto a transoceanic liner, ending up eventually in Hungary where there’s no shoreline, a language from some other planet, and enough pastry to see any cop well into retirement—and of course no sign of the runaway heiress he’s supposed to be chasing.’

Thomas Pynchon (1937) is de schrijver van oa V.; The Crying of Lot 49 en Gravity’s Rainbow (National Book Award). De laatste roman van Pynchon Bleeding edge is uit 2013.