A secretive tech billionaire (internet search) hires a struggling author in New York to write his biography.

This novel is really “exuberant”. Joshua Cohen writes a little bit like Thomas Pynchon, but his book is less crazy.

There are a lot of things going on: :

San Francisco 90s and later: funny and less funny startup stories

(like: dirty money and evil politics meet hacker culture: https://wikileaks.org/google-is-not-what-it-seems/ )

New York and Dubai: more or less crazy and impossible love stories

WW II, Holocaust: story of his mother and father

I enjoyed it, it’s a really good read.