I couldn't make it through American Psycho, but I devoured this work by Mr. Ellis. This is an amazingly energetic work, almost relentless in pacing, at least through the first two-thirds of the story. The dialogue is mesmerizing, the characters sometimes elusive but generally captivating, the storyline often hard to follow, but never boring. The protagonist, Victor Ward, is a hero so shallow that he actually generates sympathy in the reader and even becomes an unlikely underdog. I like writers who stretch the envelope. If you do too, you'll probably enjoy this work. Be warned though. The violence and the sex both reach levels that most will find pornographic.