“This has the feel of a great (American) novel, representing our country before the collapse.”
-- JACOB APPELBAUM, COMPUTER SECURITY RESEARCHER & HACKTIVIST
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V.I.R.U.S. agents VAL SIOUXX and LEVIS COAK are desperate to develop a narrative that will keep their clandestine organization in lock-step with the American zeitgeist. In 1964, the spooks track down hermetic newbie novelist THOMAS RUGGLES PYNCHON to his MEXICO footlocker hideout to coerce him into writing a burn-book about VITO PAULEKAS, the Cold War-era F.B.I. asset-gone-rogue-turned-artist who has raised and radicalized a loyal troupe of dancing FREAKS in his HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA, basement studio.
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So, like, what gives, man?
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Will PYNCHON accept the federal freelance gig? Will the paranoid pothead unearth the plot points connecting the FREAK KING to TINSEL TOWN, THEOSOPHY, and the BLACK DAHLIA/MANSON FAMILY/ZODIAC KILLER psyops?
