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King Zeno

By Rich , Nathaniel

Book information

Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux;Mcd
Year
2018
ISBN
9780374716318, 9780374181314, 0374181314
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
3 MB (3474869 bytes)
Edition
First edition
Pages
386 pages ; 22 cm\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
FICTION--Literary;FICTION--Thrillers--Historical;M

Description

New Orleans, 1918. The birth of jazz, the Spanish flu, an ax murderer on the loose.;New Orleans, 1918. It is a city determined to reshape its destiny and, with it, the nation's. The war is ending and a prosperous new age dawns. But everything is thrown into chaos by a series of murders committed by the Axeman, an ax-wielding maniac with a peculiar taste in music. Detective William Bastrop is an army veteran haunted by an act of wartime cowardice, bent on redemption. Isadore Zeno is a jazz cornetist with a dangerous side hustle. Beatrice Vizzini is the widow of a crime boss who yearns to take the family business straight. Their ambitions carry them into dark territories of obsession, paranoia, and madness ... and in New Orleans, a city built on swamp, nothing stays buried long.

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