Prologue and Chapters 1-4 Summary

Chuck Palahnuik is a critically acclaimed author who has written multiple books that were made into movies. In this latest novel, Chuck Palahnuik tackles the media and the influence it has over consumers.

In the prologue, Helen Hoover Boyle convinces a couple who has just bought a haunted house from her to give her confidential exclusive to resell the house. Helen listens to the police radio and jumps on houses where a death has occurred because she can sell them over and over again, making a profit each time. The moment she is off the phone with this couple, Helen calls another who are anxiously waiting for Helen to find them the perfect house.

In Chapter 1, Streator is thinking about some of the things he learned in journalism school as he sits in a diner with an...