As a colleague burns to a cinder, trapped in the cockpit of his machine, world champion racing driver and apparent cause of the accident Johnny Harlow made a far-reaching decision. Too many things had been going wrong in too many races and this latest death made Harlow realise it was time to sort things out. Some aggressive detective work shows there’s plenty of trouble stirring beneath the the busy surface of the racing scene and there are one or two people who will stop at nothing to prevent him discovering the details.