Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon takes place in Los Angeles in the 1960s, on the tail end of the era of free love. Doc Sportello is a marijuana smoking private eye who gets tangled up investigating his ex-girlfriend's claim that someone is plotting to kidnap her billionaire boyfriend.
'Inherent Vice' by Thomas Pynchon
Book Release Date: August 4, 2009
From Erin Collazo Miller, About.com
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