


note The plot summary on Wikipedia is currently accompanied by the warning “This section may be confusing or unclear to readers.” This is less a fault of the summary itself than it is of the material being summarised. Ostensibly it follows Doc Sportello, a private investigator in California trying to find a missing real estate developer on the behest of his ex-girlfriend but really the work explores a much wider set of themes including the sex, drugs and rock and roll lifestyle of the ’60s and its clashes with forces of law and order with a neo-noir sensibility.

Inherent Vice is a 2009 novel by Thomas Pynchon.
