![]() 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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