The novel opens before the reader the world of the U.S. automobile business, a world in which the fates of the heroes, standing on different rungs of the social ladder, are subordinated to the single flow of modern automobile production. This is one of the modern empires. A business empire. The world of a giant automobile company. A world like a perfect, flawless mechanism. But each cog in this complex mechanism is first and foremost a human being. A human being subject to stormy passions — thirst for love and success, money and power. Passions that intertwine human destinies into an unimaginable tangle of intrigues, almost “palatial” in their subtle sophistication…