---

Penny Harrigan is a low-level associate in a big Manhattan law firm. She has an apartment, but no love life. When C. Linus Maxwell, a mega-billionaire and international playboy, invites her to dinner and then whisks her off to a hotel in Paris, where he brings her to undreamed-of heights of sexual gratification for days on end, Penny is, well, pleased. However, when Penny discovers she is a test subject for a line of female sex toys so effective that women by the millions are lining up outside the stores to buy it on opening day, she understands the gravity the situation. A billion husbands are about to be replaced. What is Maxwell really up to? Erotically enabled world domination? Penny sets out to discover his motivations, and with a little help, stop him before it is too late.

---

"[Palahniuk´s] legion of fans will adore all its excesses. . . . Great fun..."- San Francisco

"Genuinely shocking and entertaining." -- The Times , London

"Nothing is sacred and everything gets torched."- USA Today

"Palahniuk continues to push limits in this satire of sex and consumerism. . . . There are some downright beautiful scenes."- Publishers Weekly

---

Der amerikanische Autor Chuck Palahniuk, geb. 1962, träumte lange davon, Schriftsteller zu werden. Doch erst ein persönlicher Einschnitt in seinem Leben gab ihm schließlich den Impuls, seinen Traum zu verwirklichen. Seit seinem Überraschungserfolg ´Fight Club´ genießt Palahniuk nicht nur bei zahlreichen Lesern Kultstatus, er hat sich mit seinen folgenden Romanen auch in die Riege amerikanischer Bestsellerautoren geschrieben. Chuck Palahniuk lebt in Portland, Oregon.

---