Inherent Vice

Description:

Doc Sportello is bewildered when an ex-girlfriend returns to recruit him in a plot to kidnap a wealthy construction executive. Soon, Sportello finds himself in the midst of a thrilling conspiracy with an undercover cop and a group of dentists who are swindling the IRS.

subjects: Private investigators,  Fiction,  History,  nyt:hardcover-fiction=2009-08-23,  New York Times bestseller,  Large type books,  American fiction,  NEW LIST 20090828,  New York Times reviewed,  American fiction (fictional works by one author),  Fiction, crime,  Private investigators, fiction,  Los angeles (calif.), fiction

Places: Los Angeles (Calif.)

Times: 20th century