Kill Your Friends: A dark, satirical and funny evisceration of the record business

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Meet Steven Stelfox.

London, 1997. Britpop rules the charts and New Labour is on the rise. Inside the music industry, A and R man Steven Stelfox is riding high, powered by cocaine, greed and an unshakable belief in his own brilliance. He tears through clubs, boardrooms and bedrooms in search of the next hit, leaving wreckage in his wake.

But the sound is changing, the deals are drying up, and Stelfox is no longer the tastemaker he once was. As his influence slips and desperation sets in, his ruthless instincts spiral into something far darker. When ambition and entitlement collide, the line between business and violence disappears entirely.

Savage, darkly funny and deeply unsettling, this is a novel about excess, ego and the moral rot beneath the glamour of the music industry. A blistering portrait of a man who will do anything to stay on top, even when the cost is murder.