Survivor: A Novel by Chuck Palahniuk follows Tender Branson—last surviving member of the Creedish Death Cult—who dictates his life story into a recorder on Flight 2039, an airplane cruising at 39,000 feet over the Pacific Ocean. Trapped alone in the doomed aircraft, which will soon crash into the Australian outback, Branson recounts his transformation from a submissive cult member and simple domestic servant to a media sensation defined by his physique and physical prowess, enhanced through steroids and collagen.