The Informers

By Bret Easton Ellis

Book Overview

From the New York Times bestselling author of American Psycho and Less Than Zero comes a nihilistic novel set in the early eighties that portrays a chilling descent into the abyss beneath L.A.'s gorgeous surfaces. - "Skillfully accomplishes its goal of depicting a modern moral wasteland.... Arguably Ellis's best." --The Boston Globe

The basis of the major motion picture starring Billy Bob Thornton, Kim Basinger and Mickey Rourke, The Informers is a seductive and chillingly nihilistic novel, in which Bret Easton Ellis, returns to Los Angeles, the city whose moral badlands he portrayed so unforgettably in Less Than Zero.

This time is the early eighties. The characters go to the same schools and eat at the same restaurants. Their voices enfold us as seamlessly as those of DJs heard over a car radio. They have sex with the same boys and girls and buy from the same dealers. In short, they are connected in the only way people can be in that city.

Dirk sees his best friend killed in a desert car wreck, then rifles through his pockets for a last joint before the ambulance comes. Cheryl, a wannabe newscaster, chides her future stepdaughter, "You're tan but you don't look happy." Jamie is a clubland carnivore with a taste for human blood.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0679743243
• ISBN13: 9780679743248
• Release Date: August 1995
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Managed to keep me interested throughout

I LOVE Ellis, but at the same time a lot of his books have some sereous flaws. Glamorama and American Psycho have a lot of great moments and scenes but also always bore the hell out of me at some points, becouse these books actually repeat the same unnecessary routine again and again. But "The Informers" is the book I find perfect for Ellis. You see, it is quite short, the characters and themes change frequently and the...

Pretty damned good

This book isn't like american psycho, much closer to less than zero. takes a look at los angeles life, and the overwhelming shallowness of it. The vampires are a bit...um...out of place i think, but still pretty good, and sense i am a fan of Anne Rice too, i felt at home with stories of vampires. and no, i am not comparing these two writers, you can't.

Ellis Stikes Again.

The only book I had read by Easton Ellis before I read "The Informers" was the notorious "American Psycho". As I'm sure you'll understand, upon encountering this book my expectations were very high. I personally found it hard to get into the narrative style of the story(ies), but once I was in, I couldn't get out. The superficiality of the narrators and protagonists in the book is delightfully constructed by Ellis, as...

Easton Ellis at his best

Ellis characters in this novel are so well choosed by the author that I think they represent the very essence of his whole work...As usual this personages will disturb you and enchant you the way only Ellis is capable to do.This book is a must for every L.A. lover.

The Perfect Ellis makes A perfect Book!

Well this is just a great book! After read all the other book this is a complete book. It has the violence and the sex and then the same atmosphere as in the others. The small stories makes it even funnier to read and then there is a small connection between them. Well READ THIS BOOK!! This is the one that suits me perfect