{"product_id":"books-kill-your-friends-by-john-niven","title":"Kill Your Friends","description":"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\u0026amp;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.","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53669239357713,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780434017997.jpg?v=1781507080","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/books-kill-your-friends-by-john-niven","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}