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.

Fueled 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.