Imperial Bedrooms by Bret Easton Ellis

A middle-aged screenwriter returns to Los Angeles to cast his new film and drifts back into the orbit of old friends and predators, becoming fixated on an ambitious young actress. As cryptic threats, blackmail, and snuff-like videos surface, paranoia and guilt blur what’s real, revealing a world of Hollywood exploitation, moral rot, and cyclical violence. The story builds to a brutal reckoning that leaves his complicity and the truth chillingly ambiguous.

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