Second edition of Martin Noble's novelization of Barry Levinson's blistering comedy about two rival salesmen in the early Sixties. Ernest Tilley and Bill Babowski - aka BB - are aluminum siding salesmen who will do anything to make a buck: they'll lie, cheat and twist the facts to clinch a deal. That's one reason why the Home Improvement Commission and the taxman are so interested in them. But when Tilley's and BB's Cadillacs crash into each other, what begins as an outrageous personal feud escalates into something much darker. They say don't just get mad get even, but BB doesn't believe in just getting even. He may be a tin man but he's also a mean dancer - his Marengay is legendary - so now he decides to practice his moves on Tilley's wife. And a tin man will stop at nothing to clinch a deal ...