 The great star of the book is San Francisco itself. There are a lot of new people moving to the city who may not really appreciate our somewhat wild past. When that book was originally published as a serial in San Francisco Chronicle, it allowed for Armistice Mop and the author to be exactly up to the minute in the society of the times before draconian nanny laws and the sort of current trend of conservativism in San Francisco when people were really allowed to let their freak flag fly. Really, I mean, it's a truck full of sex drugs and roller disco and I can wholeheartedly endorse it to anybody.