Shadow Ticket

Shadow Ticket is a novel by the American author Thomas Pynchon. It was announced by Penguin Press in April2025 and published in October the same year. The novel, which is set in 1932, centers on a Milwaukeeprivate investigator who is set adrift in Hungary while tracking the heiress to a Wisconsin cheese fortune.

Shadow Ticket is Pynchon's tenth work and his first in 12 years, since Bleeding Edge in 2013.