About this book
Layer cake (n): a metaphor for the murky layers of the criminal world. <br /><br />Smooth-talking drug dealer X has a plan to quietly bankroll enough cash to retire before his thirtieth birthday. Operating under the polished veneer of a legitimate businessman, his mantra is to keep a low profile and run a tight operation until it's time to get out. <br /><br />When kingpin Jimmy Price asks him to find the wayward daughter of a wealthy socialite who's been running around with a cokehead, he accepts the job with the promise that after this he can leave the criminal world behind with Jimmy's blessing. Oh, and he needs to find a buyer for two million ecstasy pills acquired by a crew of lowly, loud-mouth gangsters, the Yahoos. <br /><br />Simple enough, until an assassin named Klaus arrives to scratch him off his list, revealing this job is much more than it seems at first.<br /><br />The basis for the 2004 movie of the same name.