...And behind the Northern Armies came another army of men. They came by the hundreds, yet each traveled alone. They came on foot, by mule, on horseback, on creaking wagons or riding in handsome chaises.

Set in the aviation industry and HoLLywood in the 1930s, it is said the Lead protaganist Jonas Cord is based on Howard Hughes. It is the original sex and money blockbuster: a cracking story driven reLentLessLy forward by the sheer power and boldness of Robbins' writing.