'A brilliant excursion into the decadence of contemporary culture' Sunday Times Eric Packer
is a twenty-eight-year-old multi-billionaire asset manager. We join him on what will become a
particularly eventful April day in turn-of-the-twenty-first-century Manhattan. He's on a
personal odyssey to get a haircut. Sitting in his stretch limousine as it moves across town
he finds the city at a virtual standstill because the President is visiting a rapper's funeral
is proceeding and a violent protest is being staged in Times Square by anti-globalist groups.
Most worryingly Eric's bodyguards are concerned that he may be a target . . . An
electrifying study in affectlessness infused with deep cynicism and measured detachment a
harsh indictment of the life-denying tendencies of capitalism as brutal a dissection of the
American dream as Wolfe's Bonfire or Ellis's Psycho Cosmopolis is a caustic prophecy all too
quickly realized. 'A prose-poem about New York . . . DeLillo has always been good at telling
us where we're heading . . . we ignore him at our peril' Blake Morrison Guardian
