San Francisco, 1967. Jefferson Airplane and the Doors in the air. U.S. casualties in Vietnam reach a new high. Longhaired kids in colorful garb throng Haight-Ashbury. It's a time of peace and love, but a serial killer, dubbed The Death Tripper, is at large. Tough, bright Homicide Inspector John Sparrow is as-signed to the case. He meets Amy Cole, a young writer for the underground weekly The Rag, and both come away mistrusting the other. But they need each other if they are going to stop the Death Tripper. Amy leads Sparrow into her world, with its ethos of sharing and free love and its sacra-ments of music and drugs. For his part, he brings a first-hand awareness of the dark side of the Summer of Love. From opposite sides they pool their talents to track down a killer.
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