Nick Shay and Klara Sax knew each other once intimately and they meet again in the American desert. He is trying to outdistance the crucial events of his early life; she is an artist who has made a blood struggle for independence. Underworld is a story of men and women together and apart seen in deep clear detail and in stadium-sized panoramas shadowed throughout by the overarching conflict of the Cold War. It is a novel that accepts every challenge of these extraordinary times -- Don DeLillos greatest and most powerful work of fiction.