Pynchon, Thomas

Doc Sportello is surprised by his ex-girlfriend, who appears with knowledge of a plot against her billionaire lover in 1960s Los Angeles, and gets caught up in a bizarre series of events that involves surfers, a loan shark, a tenor sax player, and others.

In the days just prior to September 11th, Maxine Tarnow, a former fraud investigator and current Manhattan mom with an ex-husband, digs into the finances of a computer-security firm and its CEO and quickly finds herself in grave danger.

An average mother of two working in investigation fraud gets drawn into a shady and eccentric underworld after looking into the finances of a billionaire computer geek.

Set in Northern California in 1984, among the last few remaining hippies...

Follows the orbits of old acquaintances headed for a less than harmonic convergence in Northern California in 1984.

Shortly after the German army's secret V-2 bombs begin falling on London, U.S. Army Lt. Tyrone Slothrop realizes the bombing locations exactly match the sites of his own sexual liaisons, and that the coincidence has been noticed by British intelligence, sending Slothrop on a journey across Europe in hopes of escaping British officers who think he has knowledge about the attacks.

Reprint of a 1966 novel which tells of the adventures of Mrs. Oedipa Maas after she learns she has been named executor of the estate of former lover Pierce Inverarity, a California real estate mogul.