Cosmopolis | Don DeLillo

Eric Packer is a twenty-eight-year-old multi-billionaire asset manager.
We join him on what will become a particularly eventful April day in turn-of-the-twenty-first-century Manhattan.
He's on a personal odyssey, to get a haircut.
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.
Most worryingly, Eric's bodyguards are concerned that he may be a target .
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.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.