4/7/2023 0 Comments Mono bleeding edgeA CIA-type keeps tabs on Maxine’s progress and nudges her along with CD-ROMs sent to her by a Trinidadian bike messenger named Marvin, who proclaims: “These days I’m all over the place, like Duane Reade.” The characters she bangs up against are hilarious, Dickensian-sized, over-stuffed, well-named walk-ons, and there are dozens of them. Few city novels cover this much ground so quickly, and beautifully, from shooting ranges in Westchester, Mcmansions on Montauk, smoke shops in the Fashion District, East Village music clubs, SoHo event spaces, midtown’s endless sprawl. Maxine’s search for the truth takes her all over New York City and its outer reaches. She’s a classic private eye: not right by the law, but right in her heart. She carries a Beretta Tomcat in her purse and if the job requires a bit of high tech B&E to get to the truth she doesn’t flinch. Maxine starts off on the clock but quickly begins chasing threads on her own time. “Bleeding Edge” might be right up to date, but it has old-fashioned pleasures. Start-ups that became bought-ups appear to be acting as money-laundering outfits, with the moolah winding up parked at a holding company in the Gulf. Skepticism – toward men, or anyone - comes naturally to her.Ī bit of scratching and Maxine discovers some big irregularities in Ice’s cash flow. Her husband, Horst, has run off again, and she’s taking care of their two kids on the Upper West Side herself. Maxine already has her hands full with low-lifes, professional and matrimonial. Hoarding Web pages in the Deep Web, the part of the Internet not readily accessible by search engines. In the opening page, Maxine, who spends her time ferreting out electronic fraud for private clients, gets a tip from an old source that the companies run by boy billionaire Gabriel Ice are The action unfolds between the waning days of 2000 and pushes through 2001, the attacks of 9/11, and the shaky aftermath. Like Tom Wolfe writing about New York as if he actually cared about the place. It is a futuristic novel disguised in elegy. “Bleeding Edge” is essentially a private-eye novel, masquerading as a technothriller.
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