Shadow Ticket is a novel by the American author Thomas Pynchon. It was announced by Penguin Press in April 2025 and published that October. The novel, which is set in 1932, centers on a Milwaukee private investigator who is set adrift in Hungary while tracking the heiress to a Wisconsin cheese fortune. The novel is his tenth work and his first in 12 years, since Bleeding Edge in 2013. == Plot == In 1932, Hicks McTaggart is a private detective working for the agency Unamalgamated Ops in Milwauk…