The story follows the lives of childhood friends who've been negatively affected in different ways from their years growing up in Las Vegas off the strip.

When we meet the main characters – Chase, Michele and Bailey – they are now in their twenties and the story focuses on their lifestyle, illegal professions and their caustic influence on the generation right behind.

In a tip of the hat to Bret Easton Ellis' Less than Zero, Joe McGinniss, Jr. in his debut effort The Delivery Man, starts off the novel with these three words: Find Yourself Here.

It sets the stage for parallels between the moral nihilism of 1980s Los Angeles youth culture and the spiritual hollowness to be found among denizens of present-day Las Vegas.

The New York Times Sunday Book Review highlights this theme: According to Variety[1] film rights were sold at auction six months prior to publication and ultimately acquired by Ryan Howe and Thom Mount (The Deer Hunter, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Natural Born Killers) of Whitsett Hill Entertainment.