Self discovers that his London girlfriend, Selina, is having an affair with Ossie Twain, while Self is likewise attracted to Twain's wife in New York, Martina. Self returns to London before filming begins, revealing more of his humble origins, his landlord father Barry (who makes his contempt for his son clear by invoicing him for every penny spent on his upbringing) and pub doorman Fat Vince. Money is similar to Amis's five-years-later London Fields in having a major plot twist. (Self, characteristically, is unable to remember how he was attacked.) Towards the end of the book Self arranges to meet Frank for a showdown, which is the beginning of the novel's shocking denouement. Self is not frightened of Frank, even when he is beaten by him while on an alcoholic bender.
While in New York, Self is stalked by "Frank the Phone", a menacing misfit who threatens him over a series of telephone conversations, apparently because Self personifies the success Frank was unable to attain. As examples: the strict Christian Spunk Davis (whose name is intentionally unfortunate) is asked to play a drugs pusher the ageing hardman Lorne Guyland has to be physically assaulted the motherly Caduta Massi, who is insecure about her body, is asked to appear in a sex scene with Lorne, whom she detests. The actors in the film, which Self originally titles Good Money but which he eventually wants to rename Bad Money, all have some kind of emotional issue which clashes with fellow cast members and with their roles - the principal casting having already been done by Goodney. Self is an archetypal hedonist and slob he is usually drunk, an avid consumer of pornography and prostitutes, eats too much and, above all, spends too much, encouraged by Goodney. Money tells the story of, and is narrated by, John Self, a successful director of adverts who is invited to New York City by Fielding Goodney, a film producer, to shoot his first film. The novel was dramatised by the BBC in 2010. The novel is based on Amis's experience as a script writer on the feature film Saturn 3, a Kirk Douglas vehicle. In 2005, Time included the novel in its "100 best English-language novels from 1923 to the present". Money: A Suicide Note is a 1984 novel by Martin Amis.
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