Bleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon

This is a satire that is set in Manhattan's Silicon Alley in spring through winter 2001, the novel follows fraud investigator Maxine Tarnow through dot-com intrigue, federal covert ops, and the September 11 attacks.

This book contains; activism, alcohol, alternate gender or sexual ideologies, animal cruelty/slaughter (minor), anxiety, body horror (themes), Controversial cultural, historical, political, religious and social commentary, death/grief, deception, depression, derogatory terms, discrimination, drugs, dubious consent (implied), explicit sexual activities/nudity, fetishes, fraud/extortion, gore (dark humor/minor), kidnapping (implied), misogyny (minor), molestation (implied), murder, non-sexual nudity, oppression, patently offensive sexual content, pervasively vulgar content, porn (referenced), profanity, prostitution (implied), prurient behaviors, sex exploitation, sexism, sexual dialogue, sexual nudity, smoking, theft, torture (implied), toxic relationships, and violence.