Agent 67, nicknamed Pygmy for his diminutive size, arrives in the US from his totalitarian homeland (a mash-up of Communist-era China, North Korea, Cuba, and Nazi-era Germany), as an `exchange student` into the welcoming arms of his Simpsons-spinoff Midwestern host family who introduce him to postmodern American life, which he views with utter contempt. Along with his fellow operatives, all indoctrinated into the totalitarian mindset, he is planning something big, something truly, truly awful, that will bring this big dumb country and its fat, dumb inhabitants to their knees. Palahniuk`s finest, most ambitious novel since `Fight Club`.