Steven Stelfox is a truly unpleasant individual. He is a demigod of death. He is also a crazy genius and a teller of truth even if we don't want to hear it. Kill ‘em all is both a satire of Trump's United States and a celebration of it. For those people who are willing to plumb any depths to get what they want, Trumpland is the place to do it. Stelfox makes a staggering success of his terrible life. The worse he behaves, the better it gets. Stelfox, in this reality the creator of American Idol in all but name, is drafted in to provide crisis management. A globally successful pop star has been filmed doing something truly awful. Our anti-hero doesn't judge, but instead uses it to leverage himself into a different level of riches. The pop star is a thinly veiled version of someone no longer alive to be parodied. Kill ‘em all is not for the faint-hearted but for anyone who enjoys black-hearted satire, this is the novel for you.

Another acidic and viciously funny outing for Steven Stelfox, who has to be one of my favourite literary characters of all time - although if I actually met him I'd probably want to kill him! His is truly a nasty and yet somewhat painfully accurate take on the world, the underlying, bitter truth lingering as an aftertaste. This is satire at it's sharpest, a definite case of laughing instead of crying. I really enjoyed this novel, and can't wait to see what comes next for Stelfox. Especially as the ending was one of the finest that Niven has ever written!