1980, Rome’s famous Cinecittà film studios, and wet-behind-the-ears “gofer” Gil Graham from Los Angeles meets British “gofer” Mike Smith. They’re the Boys of Vice City and their tempestuous love affair rocks them to London—Disco City—splits them between Two Cities, and reunites them in the Fast Lane of London again. But Gil knows Mike has a past, that their nemesis, the movie mogul James Rosen, “picked Mike out of the gutter.” So how does a privately educated Latin scholar fall so low? Boy of the West End takes Mike back in time and follows his trail of discovery, perdition, and eventual redemption.