"[A] flashy, fast-moving debut . . . McGinniss successfully gambles with the notion that whatever happens in Vegas stays in Vegas." --Publishers Weekly

"[A] brisk, bleak debut novel...McGinniss manages to whip the yearning and confusion of the woefully inarticulate Chase into dramatic, even gripping fare....The Delivery Man offers unflinching glimpses at mores in free fall....Searing...Memorable...Not for the faint of heart." -Ed Park, The New York Times Book Review

"McGinniss offers a fresh take on the seamy side of Vegas by focusing on the wasted lives of burned-out teens hooked on drugs and money. Even CSI doesn't dig this deep." --Carol Memmott, USA Today

"It's sex, drugs, and a slew of lost souls in this engrossing story of a twenty-five-year-old known only as Chase. An out-of-luck wannabe artist, he retreats to his hometown--that being Vegas, a downward spiral ensues, thanks to madams and more....Could The Delivery Man be this decade's Less Than Zero?" -Marie Claire

"Grim, convincing, and compelling...McGinniss charts [his characters'] aimlessness with insight and dexterity. Dare I say it? The Delivery Man really delivers." -Art Taylor, The Washington Post

"An insider's guide to the dark underbelly of twenty-first-century Las Vegas, brimming with brand names, hard bodies, hard drugs, and heavy doses of sex and violence. If that's all you're looking for, The Delivery Man won't disappoint....But once you finish it, you won't be able to get it out of your mind....The Delivery Man is that rare first novel that could well become a classic." -Peter Bloch, Penthouse

"The Delivery Man is balls-out scary....It's a world where everyone's too young and too high, and no one expects to live 'til thirty....A fast-paced read [that] packs a wallop." -Courtney Ferguson, Portland Mercury

"A novel of nonstop tension in a landscape so modern, so up to the minute, that you can set your watch by it." --Craig Nova

"A gripping literary thriller and an auspicious debut." --George Pelecanos

"Traveling through a Las Vegas no tourist ever sees, The Delivery Man vibrates with heat and fear, sex and heartbreak. This is a fast and terrifying novel--definitely not a ride for the squeamish." --Jill Eisenstadt, author of From Rockaway

"The Delivery Man is a brutally clear-eyed and beautifully built story that shines a light on Las Vegas' dark underbelly. In its unforgettable characters, its unflinching examination of a piece of America most of us would like to pretend does not exist, and its probing of the darkest urges of the human psyche, this novel has all the force and authority of top-shelf fiction, and marks the arrival of an important new voice on the American literary scene." --Roland Merullo, author of In Revere, in Those Days and A Little Love Story

"A brutal portrait of today's lost generation." --Publishers Weekly

"Poor Chase: he feels like God's Lonely Man, all longing and disillusionment, and no one disappoints him more than he disappoints himself. He's part of a longstanding American tradition of hard guys with soft centers, guys with an exquisitely calibrated sense of their own self-degradation, like one of Bret Easton Ellis's heroes refracted through Raymond Chandler. The Delivery Man is arresting on the way, in the face of our undoing, we&#