This is the story of John Self, consumer extraordinaire. Rolling around New York and London, he makes deals, spends wildly and does reckless movie-world business, all the while grabbing everything he can to sate his massive appetites: alcohol, tobacco, pills, pornography, a mountain of junk food and more. Ceaselessly inventive and thrillingly savage, this is a tale of life lived without restraint; of money, the terrible things it can do and the disasters it can precipitate.

Martin Amisis the author of fourteen novels, the memoirExperience, two collections of stories and six collections of non-fiction. He lives in New York.

'Terribly, terminally funny: laughter in the dark, if ever I heard it' Guardian