Kill Your Friends
Kill Your Friends
Author: John Niven
Desc: It's not dog-eat-dog around here...it's dog-gang-rapes-dog-then-tortures-him-for-five-days-before-burying-him-alive-and-taking-out-every-motherfucker-the-dog-has-ever-known. Meet Steven Stelfox. London 1997: New Labour is sweeping into power and Britpop is at its zenith. Twenty-seven-year-old A&R man Stelfox is slashing and burning his way through the music industry a world where 'no one knows anything' and where careers are made and broken by chance and the fickle tastes of the general public - 'Yeah those animals'. Fuelled by greed and inhuman quantities of cocaine Stelfox blithely criss-crosses the globe ('New York Cologne Texas Miami Cannes: you shout at waiters and sign credit card slips and all that really changes is the quality of the porn') searching for the next hit record amid a relentless orgy of self-gratification. But as the hits dry up and the industry begins to change Stelfox must take the notion of cutthroat business practices to murderous new levels in a desperate attempt to salvage his career. Kill Your Friends is a dark satirical and hysterically funny evisceration of the record business a place populated by frauds charlatans and bluffers where ambition is a higher currency than talent and where it seems anything can be achieved - as long as you want it badly enough.