Eric Packer is a twenty-eight-year-old multi-billionaire asset manager. .
An electrifying study in affectlessness, infused with deep cynicism and measured detachment; a harsh indictment of the life-denying tendencies of capitalism; as brutal a dissection of the American dream as Wolfe\'s Bonfire or Ellis\'s Psycho, Don DeLillo\'s Cosmopolis is a caustic prophecy all too quickly realized.. .
Most worryingly, Eric\'s bodyguards are concerned that he may be a target .
Sitting in his stretch limousine as it moves across town, he finds the city at a virtual standstill because the President is visiting, a rapper\'s funeral is proceeding, and a violent protest is being staged in Times Square by anti-globalist groups.
He\'s on a personal odyssey, to get a haircut.
We join him on what will become a particularly eventful April day in turn-of-the-twenty-first-century Manhattan.
Eric Packer is a twenty-eight-year-old multi-billionaire asset manager
