It is early 1979, nearly ten years after Woodstock. Ernie Lanier, former lead singer and bass player for the counterculture antiwar band Generation Gap, finds himself now very much a part of the establishment. He has become a writer and singer of jingles on TV and radio commercials.
The jingle business, as he discovers, is a secretive, fiercely competitive one, with millions in residuals as its reward. Ernie is about to find out just how fierce the competition can be.
His beautiful wife and partner in their subsequent sleuthing is Annie Sands. She's also a jingle singer and a former member of The Love Notes, a group that had topped the charts in the early '60s. Together they try to untangle the Machiavellian threads that twist under the surface of this ruthless business, with its secret hatreds, a shadow world of drugs, and a murderer who's determined to frame Ernie, or failing that, to kill him.
