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.