Thirteen linked chapters, each in a different style (including one written entirely in PowerPoint slides), following a web of characters connected to the music industry across several decades. Egan published it in 2010 and won the Pulitzer. The goon squad of the title is time. The formal restlessness is the point; each chapter proves the novel can do something it was not supposed to be able to do.

The case for it, the case against, and the rest of the canon open with Pro.