Eddie Piron thinks
that performing in jazz clubs in Nazi-occupied Paris is bad enough, but when
the drummer in his band is found facedown in the Seine and the police start
asking questions, he realizes that his trouble is just beginning.
Paris, 1941. American jazz musician Eddie Piron has lived in
the City of Light since before the war began. But Paris under occupation is not
what it once was, and things are looking a lot darker for a man like Eddie. The
great jazz artists of the day, like Django Reinhardt, are lying low or being
swept away under the racial policies of the Nazis. But the SS has a paradoxical
taste for the “Negermusik,” and their favorite gathering place is La Caverne
Negre, where Eddie leads the band.
One night the drummer for “Eddie et Ses Anges” disappears. When his
body is found in the Seine the next day, Eddie becomes entangled in the murder
investigation. He soon himself in the clutches of a mercenary
intelligence broker who discovers why Eddie Piron is really in Paris—and what
he’s really hiding.
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