2cool2btrue by Simon Brooke – Pre-owned paperback

2COOL2BTRUE
by
SIMON BROOKE

PUBLISHED BY ORION BOOKS
2003
PRE-OWNED PAPERBACK

Charles Barrett is ready for a career change.  It's not that ten years of modelling haven't been fun - the Paris shows, the nightclub guests-lists, the smart flat and even smarter model girlfriend.  But now, at 33, adverts for comfy cardigans and the Stannah Stairlift loom large in Charlie's future.  It's time for him to find a job that offers more of a challenge than moving his head left or right on command.

So when a chance meeting at a shoot results in Charlei being offered a job as the face of 2cool2btrue, he readily accepts.  2cool is the web equivalent of Armani, Prada and Gucci: the sexiest, smartest thing in cyberspace and everyone wants a piece of it - celebrities, the fashion pack and the press.

As their marketing guru, Charlie's days are spent flicking through magazines looking for the ultimate luxury products for the website to endorse, his nights a whirl of launch parties and champagne.

But then things start to go wrong.  2cool's owners disappear.  And so does a large amount of money.  Charlie turns to his old modelling pals for support and finds none of them wants to help a man under investigation for fraud, particularly one labelled 'Pretty Boy' by the Metropolitan Police.

The only person who seems willing to help is a journalist, Nora.  Bizarrely dressed and fantastically clumsy, how can she even compare with Charlie's girlfriend?  But with his relationship on the rocks, Charlie realises Nora may be his only hope...

Published in 2003, this large format paperback is in good pre-owned condition, with minor signs of use.  Please judge from the pictures.