Jettero Heller's revolutionary fuel system could keep Earth from killing itself with pollution, but his test car has been sabotaged just befor its first race. Soltan Gris, his faithless partner, would have done worse than that, but he's the unwilling prisoner of an "affair" that would make Profumo blush. Not to mention that Octopus Oil has hired the world's most deadly press agent to create a publicity campaign to destroy Heller and his threat to their energy monopoly. The questions are; can Earth survive this two-man alien invasion, and can the aliens survive life on earth?