04522cam a2200685 4500 2776764563 TxAuBib 20260606120000.0 ||||||s2025||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780698159587 0698159586 B0F3FS5L7F Amazon 408d3a14-673b-4f3f-9a8b-e2750ddcb8b4 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 11807047 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Pynchon, Thomas. Shadow Ticket [Libby eBook]. Penguin Publishing Group, 2025. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. best historical fiction books. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. new york times best sellers. mystery thriller suspense. best historical fiction. mysteries and thrillers. Mystery and Suspense. Murder mystery books. thomas pynchon books. detective mysteries. best selling books. books best sellers. best books of 2025. literary fiction. literary mystery. best books 2025. thomas pynchon. mystery novels. fiction books. mystery books. pynchon books. noir mystery. best sellers. crime books. Best books. mysteries. Literary. Pynchon. mystery. novels. police. noir. HTML:A New York Times Bestseller • A New York Times, Washington Post, and Associated Press Notable Book • Named a Best Book of the Year by The Los Angeles Times, Vulture, TIME, The Guardian, The New Republic, and LitHub The new novel from Thomas Pynchon, author of Gravity's Rainbow, The Crying of Lot 49, Vineland, and Inherent Vice. “A masterpiece.” —The Telegraph “Bonkers and brilliant fun.” —The Washington Post “Late Pynchon at his finest. Dark as a vampire’s pocket, light-fingered as a jewel thief, Shadow Ticket capers across the page with breezy, baggy-pants assurance — and then pauses on its way down the fire escape just long enough to crack your heart open.” —The Los Angeles Times 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 onetime 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. By the time Hicks catches up with her he will find himself also entangled with Nazis, Soviet agents, British counterspies, swing musicians, practitioners of the paranormal, outlaw motorcyclists, and the troubles that come with each of them, none of which Hicks is qualified, forget about being paid, to deal with. Surrounded by history he has no grasp on and can’t see his way around in or out of, the only bright side for Hicks is it’s the dawn of the Big Band Era and as it happens he’s a pretty good dancer. Whether this will be enough to allow him somehow to Lindy-hop his way back again to Milwaukee and the normal world, which may no longer exist, is another question. Literature. Fiction. Mystery. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2026-06-05 20:00:01. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=408d3a14-673b-4f3f-9a8b-e2750ddcb8b4&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=408d3a14-673b-4f3f-9a8b-e2750ddcb8b4&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) BTCLS