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The Glitter of Giovanna, Marchesa di Totti Cambelli as the proud owner of the Sophia waits in all her finery to greet the guests flocking to her club's opening...of fire marshal Terry Ahearn's upper crush girl friend Melissa, as she welcomes him into her bed and introduces him to a different kind of fire..of some of New York's most influential citizens, as they unwittingly condemn their friends and families to blazing death...marking the trail that leads from burned-out slums in the South Bronx to a fire-gutted disco in the Astor Motel to the inner sanctums of the wealthy...forming a twisting pattern that draws Terry Ahearn into the murky, corrupt world of political payoffs, insurance fraud, arson.