Cosmopolis

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.