Book description
It's a stunningly eventful day in the life of Eric Packer, a
multi-billionaire who owns a forty-eight-room apartment and a
decommissioned nuclear bomber and who has recently married the heiress
of a vast European fortune. Sitting in his stretch limousine as it moves
across the middle of Manhattan, he finds the city at a virtual
standstill because the President is visiting, a rapper's funeral is
proceeding through town, and a violent protest is being staged in Times
Square by anti-globalist groups. Eric's bodyguards are worried that he
is a target and, indeed, he is -- although the danger, as it turns out,
is not from protesters or political assassins but from an anonymous man
who lives in an abandoned building. 'One of America's smartest and most
disturbing writers' THE TIMES 'DeLillo shapes a rhetoric for our age'
OBSERVER
Don DeLillo is the author of two plays and thirteen novels,
including UNDERWORLD, WHITE NOISE and, most recently, THE BODY ARTIST
. He has won the National Book Award, the Jerusalem Prize and the
IRISH TIMES International Fiction Prize.
