The Pale King

When young intern David Foster Wallace unwittingly arrives at work at the Regional Inspection Center of the IRS, he is plunged into a mechanistic and Kafkaesque world of long corridors, reports, declarations, and endless exhausting labor. But it only seems that way at first glance, as very strange employees work here, whose abilities often defy rational explanation; in moments of exhaustion, phantoms may appear to the inspectors, and within the organization, a conspiracy brewing could destroy the last remnants of humanity in this already unpleasant job.
"The Pale King" remained unfinished due to the untimely death of the writer, but it is an engaging, unexpected, and utterly fearless text, standing on par with "Infinite Jest" and "Brief Interviews with Hideous Men." The distinctive style, a gallery of truly unusual and one-of-a-kind characters, questions about the meaning of human life and the cost of work in society, characteristic complexity and humor – all this is the last book by David Foster Wallace.