Twenty-six-year old Patrick Bateman is an educated, intelligent, and handsome New York businessman, who comes from old money and murders people in his spare time.
When Clay returns home to Los Angeles after being out east at college, he finds himself slipping into the dark world of wealth, moral entropy, and drug abuse that is already consuming his childhood friends.
Becoming a best-selling novelist and wealthy celebrity while still in college, only to have his fame disintegrate in a sea of booze and drugs, the narrator gets a new chance at life, but his new life unravels after a series of grotesque murders.
