“The Scot’s debut is a dark, gruesome, and frequently hysterical satire of this period, told from the perspective of desperate A&R man Steven Stelfox. It’s American Psycho meets The Player, as witnessed by a writer with Hunter S. Thompson’s eye for the grotesque.”
—Q Magazine
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This is a work of fiction. Names and characters are the product of the author’s imagination and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
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EPub Edition © March 2010 ISBN: 978-0-06-199116-5
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