Viva La Madness

Now Connolly is back with a sequel that sees him on the same stunning form with his trademark razor-sharp dialogue and quick-fire violence but also finding dark humor and pathos in the lives of violent men. From the London underworld Viva la Madness moves to international crime with trans-Atlantic drug deals money laundering and high-tech electronic fraud portrayed with the same uncanny believability. The anonymous hero of Layer Cake is pulled back into the drug game before he can escape to a sunny retirement. In a dazzling combination of London low-life Caribbean high-life and Venezuelan drug cartels toting machine-guns in Mayfair our heros voice and mission are authentic thrilling and whiplash-inducing in equal shares.