Shadow Ticket by Thomas Pynchon

A Milwaukee private investigator, Hicks, is pulled from Prohibition-era
strikebreaking and gangland intrigue into a shadow-ticket chase
across Europe on the eve of World War II. The novel blends
hardboiled detective fiction with conspiracies, the paranormal, fascism, and Jewish-persecution themes.

This book contains; activism, alcohol, anxiety, assassination,
blackmail, body horror, bullying, cannibalism, controversial cultural,
historical, political, racial, religious, and social commentary,
death/grief, deception, depression, derogatory terms, discrimination, divination, drugs, fetishes (ekrexophilia, lampadophiles), hate speech, horror (supernatural/macabre), inflammatory political, racial, social, kinks, misogyny, murder, non-sexual nudity, oppression, profanity, prostitution, prurient behaviors, racism, sex exploitation (elements), sexism, sexual activities, sexual dialogue, smoking, suicide (referenced), theft, torture (referenced), toxic relationships, violence, and voyeurism.