The Invention of Sound

- Blurb -

Chuck Palahniuk returns with the chilling tale, in classic Palahniuk tradition, of a father in search of his daughter, a young woman with a secret, and a malicious recording that can make "the whole world scream at the exact same time. "Private detective Foster Gates is a father is in search of his missing daughter, and sound engineer Mitzi harbors a secret that may help him solve the case. It' s Mitzi' s job to create the dubbed screams used in horror films and action movies. She' s the best at what she does. But what no one in Hollywood knows is the screams Mitzi produces are harvested from the real, horror-filled, blood-chilling screams of people in their death throes--a technique first employed by Mitzi' s father and one she continues on in his memory--a deeply conflicted serial killer compelled beyond her understanding to honor her father' s chilling legacy. Soon Foster finds himself on Mitzi' s trail. And in pursuit of her dark art, Mitzi realizes she' s created the perfect scream, one that compels anyone who hears it to mirror the sound as long as they listen to it--a highly contagious seismic event with the potential to bring the country to its knees.