Ambition

'I'm sick of breaking bimbos - it's no fun, no challenge. Strong, hard career girls - they're the new filet mignon of females. Girls like you. Oh, I'm going to have fun breaking you, Susan.'



Tobias Pope ruled his communications empire with fear and loathing - his employees feared him and he loathed them. But he may have met his match in Susan Street, the young, beautiful and nakedly ambitious deputy of his latest newspaper acquisition. As they fight, shop and orgy from Soho to Rio and from Sun City to New York City, getting what she wants - the top job - seems so simple. If she doesn't break first.



No taboo is left unbroken, no fantasy left unfulfilled in this shocking exposé of the lengths to which one woman will go become editor of the UK's bestselling tabloid.



Julie Burchill has written more than a dozen books, with the TV adaptation of one of them, Sugar Rush, winning an International Emmy.



Her hobbies include spite, luncheon, philanthropy, writing short stories and learning Modern Hebrew. She is married and lives in Brighton.



She has been a hack since the age of 17 and is now 53 years old, and currently writing for the Daily Mail and Observer.



Julie Burchill writes like Zola on speed



A really rude, really naughty book



The raunchiest, sleaziest book about journalism I have ever read



A sexplicit blockbuster



Read it and pant