Jonathan Cape Shadow Ticket — Thomas Pynchon

Product description

A private eye is catapulted on to a continent-hopping journey that proves difficult to escape.

Milwaukee, 1932: Hicks McTaggart, a onetime strikebreaker turned private eye, is hired to locate an heiress who has decided to wander.

What begins as a routine case soon threads him onto a transoceanic liner and eventually to a strange version of Hungary, where he encounters Nazis, Soviet agents, British counterspies, swing musicians, paranormal practitioners, outlaw motorcyclists and numerous other dangers.

Surrounded by history he cannot fully grasp, Hicks finds some consolation in the dawn of the Big Band Era and his unexpected talent for dancing.

Whether he can Lindy-hop his way back to Milwaukee and the normal world is another question.

Format: Hardback.

ISBN: 9781787336339. Publisher: Jonathan Cape.

Publication year: 2025. Pages: 304. Dimensions: 24.1 x 16.3 cm.

Selected praise: 'A masterpiece… A vintage tale of adventure' — Daily Telegraph

'Brilliant fun… Rollicking' — Washington Post

'So alive, so pleasurable' — Megan Nolan

'Grabs you by the collar' — New York Times.

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