Bateman, at the beginning of American Psycho, is a 27-year-old specialist in mergers and acquisitions at the fictional Wall Street investment firm of Pierce & Pierce and lives at 55 West 81st Street, Upper West Side on the 11th floor of the American Gardens Building. In his secret life, however, Bateman is a serial killer murdering a variety of people, including colleagues, the homeless, and sex workers. His crimes—including rape, torture, necrophilia, and cannibalism are graphically described