Why would Adam Noone contemplate the murder of his new boss? After all, he is a respectable and successful "headhunter," isn't he? This darkly humourous book charts the downward spiral of a tarnished and self-absorbed protagonist as he travels from naive enthusiasm to cynical disillusionment through his career as a recruitment consultant at the turn of the century. We encounter a succession of flawed characters and debauched scenarios as Noone gets caught up in a heady world of arrogance and excess in sexist, pre-credit-crunch business Britain. By the end, Noone's fragile state of mind and...