Physically Beautiful And Strangely Passive, George Miles Attracts His Fellow Students With A Mysterious Promise, Like A Wallet Lying On The Street. One After Another, His Teenage Friends Rifle Through George, Ransacking Him For Love Or Anything Else They Could Trust In The Mindlessness Of Middle America. What They Find Is A Vision Of Nightmare Intensity, In A Novel That Assaults The Senses As It Engages The Mind.closer Follows The Links Of Desire And Value That Drag George Into The Arms Of Men Like John, An Artist Who Drains His Portraits Of Humanity In Order To Find What Lies Beneath; Alex, Fascinated By Splatter Films And Pornography; And Steve, An Underground Entrepreneur Who Turns His Parents' Garage Into A Nightclub.