ILLEGAL USE OF NARCOTIC DRUGS, PSYCHOTROPIC SUBSTANCES, AND THEIR ANALOGS CAUSES HEALTH DAMAGE, THEIR ILLEGAL CIRCULATION IS PROHIBITED AND ENTAILS LIABILITY ESTABLISHED BY LAW. Patrick Bateman is a handsome, well-educated, intelligent young man. By day he works on Wall Street, but this serves only as a supplement to his true calling. What he does in the evenings and at night can’t even be imagined by a pampered layman, not even in the worst nightmare. He is twenty-six years old and lives his own American Dream. Ellis’s novel, rapidly becoming a modern classic, was adapted into a film by Mary Harron ("I Shot Andy Warhol," "The Notorious Bettie Page," "The Butterfly Diary"), starring Christian Bale, Willem Dafoe, Reese Witherspoon, Jared Leto, and Chloë Sevigny.