Deadbeat Escapement (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798218946029)

V.I.R.U.S. agents Val Siouxx and Levis Coak are desperate to develop a narrative that will keep their clandestine organization in lock-step with the American zeitgeist. In 1964, the spooks track down hermetic newbie novelist Thomas Ruggles Pynchon to his Mexico footlocker hideout to coerce him into writing a burn-book about Vito Paulekas, the Cold War-era F.B.I. asset-gone-rogue-turned-artist who has raised and radicalized a loyal troupe of dancing Freaks in his Hollywood, CA, basement studio. So, like, what gives, man? ​Will Pynchon accept the federal freelance gig? Will the paranoid pothead unearth the plot points connecting the Freak King to Tinsel Town, Theosophy, and the Black Dahlia/Manson Family/Zodiac Killer psyops?

Author: John Ledbetter
ISBN-13: 9798218946029
Publisher: Vikon Village Books
Language: English
Published: 02/03/2026
Pages: 422
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.24lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.94d