Author's inscription on front free endpaper. Per front free endpaper, this is no. 723 of "a special autographed edition." Another magazine is failing, actually two this time, loyal employees are worried, the sharks and would-be fixers are starting to gather, conservative board members just don't understand, etc. John Ridgely Warren is brought in keep things going. Money is the problem: How to raise it and from whom when you're no longer a good risk but not yet defunct, and then there are the conditions which certain types of lenders like to attach. Warren, who also has a personal financial interest, goes farther and farther out on a limb. How many compromises does one make, and for which motives, before it becomes too many?