The New York Trilogy is perhaps the most astonishing work by one of America's most consistently remarkable writers. The trilogy consists of three cleverly interconnected novels that exploit the elements of standard detective fiction and achieve a new genre that is all the more gripping for its starkness. It is a riveting work of detective fiction worthy of Raymond Chandler, while also serving as a profound and unsettling existential inquiry in the tradition of Kafka or Borges. In each story, the search for clues leads to remarkable coincidences in the universe, as the simple act of trailing a man ultimately becomes a startling investigation of what it means to be human. The New York Trilogy represents the modern novel at its finest: a truly bold and arresting work of fiction that has the power to transfix and astound every reader. It marks a new departure for the American novel.