Minor's own hunch-that it's somebody in Frankie Orr's mob, now run by identical twins Tony and Carlo Balls (nÇ Ballista)-leads him to seek an interview with Carlo. The high-paying, low-profile job (everything about ``the E-car'' must be shrouded in secrecy until its release) would be routine if Minor's questioning of guys on a Ford assembly line didn't convince UAW head Walter Reuther that Minor was spying on the rank-and-file and make him blackmail Minor into fingering the would-be assassin who shot Reuther and his brother, Victor, back in 1948. His triumphs as a crime reporter long behind him by 1954, Connie Minor's trapped in dead-end advertising work when Ford exec Israel Zed plucks him from obscurity to promote Everyman's dream car, the Edsel. Following Douglas Adams, Estleman adds a fourth volume to his Detroit trilogy-this one sandwiched in time between Whiskey River (1990) and Motown (1991).
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