From Publishers Weekly Checker Secretti, musical and philosophical guru as well as drummer for the Derailleurs, a band in Queens, N.Y., faces the goading and intrigues of a rival drummer. Meanwhile, Checker is smitten with Syria Paramus, a glassblower. PW found Checker to be "a boy so radiant that his creator has fallen in love with him. And so has the reader." Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.