Bleeding Edge [electronic resource] / Thomas Pynchon.
It is 2001 in New York City, in the lull between the collapse of the dot-com 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 license 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 mom, 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 neighborhood, 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.
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Record details
- ISBN: 9781470389420
- ISBN: 1470389428
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (1 audio file (18hr., 40 min.)) : digital.
- Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: [United States] : Recorded Books, Inc., 2013.
- Distributor: Made available through hoopla
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- Restrictions on Access Note:
- Flex title available through hoopla.
- Participant or Performer Note:
- Read by Jeannie Berlin.
- System Details Note:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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