"Follow a lover who has an uncanny way with women, though each affair burns out to be succeeded by another. Follow a musical group named Fire, which threatens to dwindle the entire universe's supply of energy with each successive performance. Follow the trail of a professional arsonist, paid by unions to burn down homes built by scab labor. Follow all this in a novel ostensibly written about the 1970s, though it delivers an uncanny resemblance to the paranoia and confusion permeating this current millenium."--BOOK JACKET.