A vicious, black-hearted howl of a book . . . A realistic portrait of the music industry, doing for it what "The Player" did for Hollywood. . . . Cripplingly funny in the way that only the very darkest comedy can be.--Chris Power, "The Times" (London).

A vicious, black-hearted howl of a book . . . A realistic portrait of the music industry, doing for it what "The Player" did for Hollywood. . . . Cripplingly funny in the way that only the very darkest comedy can be.--Chris Power, "The Times" (London).

AS the twentieth century breathes its very last, with Britpop at its zenith, twenty-seven-year-old A&R man Steven Stelfox is slashing and burning his way through London's music industry. Blithely crisscrossing the globe in search of the next megahit--fueled by greed and inhuman quantities of cocaine--Stelfox freely indulges in an unending orgy of self-gratification. But the industry is changing fast and the hits are drying up, and the only way he's going to salvage his sagging career is by taking the idea of "cutthroat" to murderous new levels.