A reunion with old friends who have long become bitter enemies. Clay hasn't been to Los Angeles in twenty-five years, but now he must return to the city of his childhood and youth to promote a new film. At the very first party, the celebrated screenwriter encounters his old friends. However, no one seems genuinely pleased that Clay has returned, and it quickly becomes apparent that beneath the friendly facade, everyone deeply distrusts one another: old stories and resentments combine with new suspicions to create a thick atmosphere of paranoia and fear. Twenty-five years after "Less Than Zero," Bret Easton Ellis shows in this novel how the hedonistic society of the eighties lives on today - and he discovers something dreadful: hardly anything has changed.