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This is a black comedy murder mystery novel at the end of the 20th century. The background is at the end of the upcoming millennium. Nicola Sixx, a beautiful, sexy prostitute with the ability to foresee the future, foresaw that she would be murdered on her thirty-fifth birthday, so she made step-by-step arrangements for the arrival of this day. Who will kill her? Is it the dirty and shameless liar Keith Tallent, or the rich, tall, romantic banker Guy Clinch? But there was no definite answer to this question until the end. What's even more incredible is that she actually used her beauty to seduce the novel's narrator, Samson Young, and made this second-rate writer suffering from cancer change the plot of the story and become a super accomplice in this murder game. The "London Ground" is both a place within the city of London and a symbol of the desolation of the postmodern Western world. The death that occurs here is the death of the body, the death of the spirit, the death of faith, and the death of the soul.

The story takes place in the London town of Diston. Lionel Asbaugh is a notorious and evil gangster. He cares for his orphaned nephew Desmond Pepperdine in his own unique way, and earnestly warns him: A man must stay on top of his sword. Dating with his girlfriend is not as effective as erotic teasing... Desmond tries his best to cater to his uncle because of his ulterior family secrets. Just when Desmond began to live a healthy life, Lionel in prison accidentally won the lottery and received a prize of 140 million pounds. After he was released from prison, money made Lionel more cruel and ruthless, and the fate of the nephews and uncles also changed dramatically...

"Money" is Martin Amis's masterpiece and was selected as one of "The 100 Best English Novels" by Time magazine. The protagonist of the novel, Self, is a producer who "makes commercial TV commercials for tobacco, alcohol, junk food, and nude magazines." For money, he even more unscrupulously makes pornographic videos, and travels between London and New York, two money-worshiping metropolises. In this web of money and sex, Self's relationships with everyone around him are laid bare. Money is everywhere and omnipotent. As the only "true god" that Self trusts, it can not only fulfill all of Self's despicable and greedy human desires, but at the same time pave the way for Self to fall into hell. In this money and sex scam, Self ultimately became the biggest loser. In its straightforward, uninhibited and decadent description, this book profoundly highlights Amis's extreme ridicule of "money" and the silent sorrow of the twisted human soul corroded by "money".

Nominated for the Booker Prize by Martin Amis, the "godfather of literature" in the UK, it is a surreal fable about exposure, murder, love and sex. "London Venue" sets the story in 1999, but the target of satire is still Britain in the 1980s. The story describes the process of a thirty-four-year-old prostitute (Nicola Sickles) about to be killed, "an old story between men and women." The question is: who will kill her? Is it the sleazy liar Keith Tallent, a true London drinker, or the rich, tall, emotionally dependent Guy Clinch? But there was no definite answer to this question until the end. This novel skillfully expresses the "apocalyptic complex" full of death anxiety. Suicide, murder, being killed or raped, these virtual violent images constitute the overall death atmosphere of the novel. The death here is not only the death of the body, but also the death of the spirit, the death of faith, the death of the soul. It is the end of the world, the end of existence, and the suicide of mankind before the catastrophe.