Publish or Die. Mickey Starts, #10

Mickey is out of his comfort zone, down in London and being asked to help a family friend in the publishing business. It's all new to him, and he doesn't understand it. Only when people start punching each other does he really feel suited to his task, and then he has to use all his native guile and wit and charm to overcome his prejudices and get to the bottom of what could be a very puzzling mystery.
Fortunately, there's no depths to the sink of human greed, and past all the surface glist and glamour, publishing is simply another dirty business, where reputations are made and lives are ruined, fortunes are created and lost, and people co-operate and compete in equaly manner. Mickey has to smile. He has, it seems, the talents to survive, whatever jungle - real or city - that he finds himself in.