This is a thrilling debut--a novel about youth wasting itself knowingly against the laid-back, glossy, trademark amorality of Las Vegas, told in a voice that sounds like that of a slightly older, hipper Holden Caulfield, coming of age in a place that has no past or future--only the cool, gleaming, terrifying present. Sexy, touching, always shrewdly observed, and with a killer ending, The Delivery Man Is the Less Than Zero of the early 2000s--and the first step in what I am sure will be a remarkable career.