Kill Your Friends- read it NOWW!!

I'd like to make everyone aware that this is my first entry for reviewparty, so bare with me. I recently read a book written by John Niven called Kill Your Friends. I was intrguied because I had heard that it was based in 1997, around the time of the Britpop explosion- my favourite era of music. I was however, in no way prepared for the utter brutality, manipulation, and heartlessness portrayed by the protaganist Steven Stelfox. The language Niven uses is both gruesome and beautiful, and the attention to detail serves to exphasise the shocking imagery. Stelfox's disire to excel in his job leads to actions that are completely disgraceful and uphorent, although not beyond the realms of plausibility for a young go-getter with an insupressible appitite for money and success. What Niven has done with this book, from my perspective anyway, is to have the audience root for someone who is basically a monster. Brilliant book. Brilliant author.