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The mutilated body of a man dressed as a woman is discovered in a deserted section of Manhattan. He had tried to sell the only copy of a movie--reputedly pornographic--shot in Hitler's Berlin bunker during the final days of the Third Reich. The film has disappeared. Immediately caught up in the frenzied search for it are the running dogs of America--an important Senator, and art dealer, a retired CIA agen, a radical journalist, the Mafia, a youthful entrepreneur of smut, a disenchanted double agent. With the wit, style, and power than have marked all his writing, DeLillo transforms the lurid elements of the conventional thriller into a dazzling work of art that captures the latter-day American nightmare.