Doc is handcuffed and about to be given a lethal drug overdose, but escapes and kills both Puck and Adrian. Doc visits Adrian, who claims that he is behind the Golden Fang organization, while Puck contends that Glen was killed deliberately because he was supplying black-power groups with weapons. Adrian Prussia permitted Puck to murder Vincent. Doc visits the site and encounters Riggs Warbling, architect of the housing project, who fears that Mickey has been "reprogrammed" and that the development, already abandoned, will be destroyed.īack in Los Angeles, Doc learns that Puck Beaverton and Bigfoot's former policing partner, Vincent Indelicato, were sworn enemies. Later, Doc believes that he sees Mickey in the company of federal agents, and subsequently hears of Mickey's scheme for a philanthropic housing project in the desert. In Las Vegas, Doc places a bet with the manager of the Kismet Lounge, Fabian Fazzo, that Mickey hadn't faked his own disappearance. After a visit from Trillium Fortnight, a female companion of Puck's, Doc travels to Las Vegas in search of Puck and Trillium's sexual threesome partner, Einar. Doc then discovers links between Puck Beaverton and a notorious loan shark named Adrian Prussia. Doc is then told that the attack during which Glen Charlock was shot was carried out by a group of vigilantes who secretly work for the LAPD. Doc visits the institute, where he again encounters Coy Harlingen, and deduces that Mickey has been apprehended by an unknown person. Japonica reveals that she has stayed at a clinic named the Chryskylodon Institute. He also discovers that Puck Beaverton had switched shifts with Charlock on the day of Charlock's death.ĭoc visits Golden Fang Enterprises where he meets Japonica Fenway, a young runaway whom Doc had returned to her wealthy parents on a previous occasion. He finds Coy in a nightclub, who tells Doc about the Golden Fang, an old schooner suspected of bringing mysterious goods into port, and upon which both Mickey and Shasta are rumored to have departed. Doc learns that Coy has been working for the government as an informer and agent provocateur, but is allowed no contact with his family. Later, Doc is visited by Hope Harlingen, the widow of a musician named Coy Harlingen, who wants Doc to investigate rumors that Coy is still alive. "Bigfoot" Bjornsen, who informs Doc that Charlock has been shot dead and Mickey has vanished. Later, a black militant named Tariq Khalil asks Doc to find Glen Charlock, one of Mickey's bodyguards-Tariq claims that Charlock owes him money after their time spent together in prison.ĭoc visits one of Mickey's developments but is knocked unconscious, and awakes to find himself being questioned by his old LAPD nemesis, Det. Shasta asks Doc to help foil a plot allegedly hatched by Mickey's wife Sloane and her lover, Riggs Warbling, to have Mickey admitted to a mental health institution. Larry "Doc" Sportello, a private investigator and pothead, receives a visit from his former girlfriend Shasta Fay Hepworth, who is now having an affair with real-estate mogul Michael Z. The novel was adapted into a 2014 film of the same name. Critical reception was largely positive, with reviewers describing Inherent Vice as one of Pynchon's more accessible works. It is considered a postmodern novel that warps the stylistic conventions of detective fiction. Themes of drug culture and counterculture are prominently featured. A darkly comic detective novel set in 1970s California, the plot follows sleuth Larry "Doc" Sportello whose ex-girlfriend asks him to investigate a scheme involving a prominent land developer. Inherent Vice is a novel by American author Thomas Pynchon, originally published in August 2009.
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