Slab Rat

Zachary Arlen Post is a fraud. A lazy but ambitious magazine editor who toils in one of New York's skyscrapers, or 'slabs', Zachary is struggling to work his way up the masthead of It, the shallow, glossy magazine at which he's an associate editor. But his ascent has stalled: he can't seem to get promoted. So when determined new boy Mark Larkin begins to get himself noticed and promoted, Zachary realises that something must be done. Mark must be destroyed . . .'Heller's satire on American magazine journalism is written to the same high standard as his father's first novel, Catch-22 . . . this is the funniest and sharpest novel about journalism since Jay Mclnerney's Bright Lights, Big City Daily Telegraph)