Inherent Vice

Thomas Pynchon First published 2009

About this book

Doc Sportello is bewildered when an ex-girlfriend returns to recruit him in a plot to kidnap a wealthy construction executive. Soon, Sportello finds himself in the midst of a thrilling conspiracy with an undercover cop and a group of dentists who are swindling the IRS.

Subjects

  • american fiction
  • american fiction (fictional works by one author)
  • fiction
  • fiction, crime
  • history
  • large type books
  • los angeles (calif.), fiction
  • new list 20090828
  • new york times bestseller
  • new york times reviewed
  • nyt:hardcover-fiction=2009-08-23
  • private investigators
  • private investigators, fiction