.....For this his fourth novel, Harry Haines switches from Texas to Michigan. But a familiar sub-plot returns—music. Readers who loved his stories about artistic performance will find another singer who faces ruthless competition. But that’s only the sub-plot. The real story is about automobiles—or more precisely, about the people who design and manufacture them. At this point in history, when pundits  tell us that the auto industry is in the throws of its greatest “make over” in 100 years, Haines has crafted a tale of death and deceit about the cars we drive. To develop his “behind-the-scenes” intrigue that has become the hallmark of a Harry Haines novel, he traveled to the University of Michigan and lived on campus for weeks at a time. Haines reports that students and faculty welcomed him and shared their innermost hopes and dreams for automobiles of the future—and that one of the most fascinating was solar power, cars that run on energy from the sun.