In the middle of a sweltering July heat wave that has no end in sight, Californias Golden State Power and Light is on overload. An emergency brownout is already in effect. Then, GSP&Ls newest and largest generator explodes. With four people dead and a widespread loss of power, a fringe group takes responsibility. But for GSP&L vice president Nim Goldman and his family; his adversary, investigative reporter Nancy Molineaux; detective...

Depicts the lives, loves, and personal ambitions of the individuals caught up in America's sprawling automobile industry.

Through the doors of the St. Gregory, a posh, aging luxury hotel in the lusty New Orleans French Quarter, pass the powerful, the proud and the predatory. Among them are the bigoted owner, a tough-minded general manager, an arrogant Duchess who dominates her weak-willed husband, a Bible-thumping tycoon who'll invoke any means to add the St. Gregory to his conformity-stamped hotel chain, a duplicitous detective and a thief with a briefcase full of room...