WATCH: Cocktails in Literature - Tequila Zombie from Inherent Vice

Welcome to Cocktails in Literature, a new series hosted by longtime bartender, and former Rhode Islander, Justin Razza. In each video, Razza explores the extraordinary cocktails described in some of the world's most celebrated novels, and replicates the drink while presenting the recipe for you to make for yourself. ​

This week, the Tequila Zombie - as ordered in Inherent Vice​. The novel, written by American author Thomas Pynchon, was originally published in August 2009. Inherent Vice is a darkly comic detective novel set in 1970s California, the plot follows sleuth Larry "Doc" Sportello whose ex-girlfriend asks him to investigate a scheme involving a prominent land developer. ​

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