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Maxine speaks with Rocky Slagiatt, a venture capitalist investor behind Ice’s enterprises, who expresses concerns about the company’s activity.

One of Maxine’s best friends, Vyrva McElmo, explains that her husband’s Deep Web tech company, DeepArcher, is sought by Ice and Hashlingrz. Once Maxine makes this discovery, she notices she’s being followed. Maxine discovers large payments being made from Hashlingrz to now defunct companies, including a website that has ties to an Arabian money laundering scheme using hawala, a value transfer system.

Ice is known for boldly recruiting new talent, and is believed to be in business with the federal government as well. Maxine investigates the firm and its geeky young CEO, Gabriel Ice, and learns that the firm’s finances don’t add up. Reg was hired by Hashlingrz to make a documentary about the company, but is stifled by their financial secrecy. On her way, Maxine is approached by a man named Reg Despard, a documentary filmmaker who expresses concern over a shady computer security firm called Hashlingrz. A woman named Maxine Tarnow, who is a formerly certified fraud examiner, walks her two sons, Otis and Ziggy, to school before going to work. Narrated in the third-person limited omniscient perspective, the surreal and dreamlike story begins in New York City on the first day of spring, 2001. The novel was also named as a New York Times Notable Book of 2013. Bleeding Edge has been called “a necessary novel and one that literary history has been waiting for” by, a “hilarious, shrewd, and disquieting metaphysical mystery” by Booklist, and “exemplary…dazzling and ludicrous” by The New York Times. Thematically, the book touches on the zeitgeist of the 9/11 tragedy, as well as the startup internet age, when mega-tech companies like Google and Microsoft had yet to become such powerful entities. Maxine also has her two young sons and ex-husband, Horst, to deal with at home. With her own unique methodology and loose sense of morals, Maxine must safely negotiate her way through a colorful array of Russian mobsters, drug dealers, bloggers, hackers, coders, angry entrepreneurs, scent-trackers, Arab terrorists, and more.

Set in 2001 New York, the story revolves around Maxine Tarnow, a formerly certified fraud examiner who becomes entangled in a complex web of criminal activity when she takes a new case involving a shady computer security firm. Bleeding Edge is the 2013 fictional detective crime novel written by American author Thomas Pynchon.