_____________________The long-awaited sequel to KILL YOUR FRIENDSA Guardian Book of the Year
2018It is 2017 - the time of Trump Brexit and fake news. And time for the return of Steven
Stelfox former A&R man who made his millions from a hit reality TV show. Now Stelfox works
occasionally as a music industry 'consultant'. A fixer. He's had a call from his old friend
James Trellick president of one of the largest record companies in America. Trellick has a
huge problem on his hands in the shape of...Lucius Du Pre. Once the biggest pop star on earth.
Now he's a helpless junkie a prolific sexual predator and massively in debt to Trellick's
record company. And the picture only gets bleaker when the parents of one of Du Pre's 'special
friends' begin blackmailing him.Enter Stelfox stage right. He's the perfect man to find a way
out of this nightmare and to make a killing in the process. There's no line he won't cross.
_____________________'A banging action satirical thriller. But it's also a proper novel about
the Trumpian era of the reality TV era the fake news era. It's managed to say a lot of things
in a way that very few other novels are doing and in a very comedic way' IRVINE WELSH'A
bruising triumph Amis' MONEY for the Trump generation. What a monster he's created' IAN
RANKIN'John Niven understands our era better than almost anyone' DOUGLAS COUPLAND'A scabrously
entertaining satire of what it is like to be rich and white in the land of the free if you are
utterly depraved where money doesn't just talk or swear it nukes. ... There is a twisted
poetry in Niven's mastery of invective' THE TIMES'Savagely viciously witty this frantic hymn
to greed is filthy frenetic and totally fabulous' SUNDAY MIRROR'A full-throttle send up of
toxic masculinity ... Niven at full tilt is always something to behold.'METRO
