And the Angels Sing - Hardcover
It's 1941 and Swing is King. But as the late Cab Calloway said, in those days music belonged to the mob. Carl Carlson is on the verge of Big Band stardom. He would do anything to make his dream come true and the damned war is just a nuisance. The draft board doesn't see it that way. After being wounded in North Africa, the Army assigns Carl to translation duties in a German prisoner of War camp conveniently near Musso, the Cleveland, Ohio, gangster who can put him back on top.
Musso doesn't ask much in return: one hand washes the other. All Carl has to do us use his charm to seduce the promiscuous Natalie Bixby, locate her thieving boyfriend, and toss him to Musso like raw meat to a shark. Meanwhile, dark undercurrents are also flowing in the prisoner of war camp--Nazi intimidation, torture, escapes, and the murder of a child.
How much evil is Carl willing to ignore in his single-minded quest for stardom? Is he so far gone that he does not care who murdered a boy? Will his attraction to the young and beautiful Italian translator Elizabeth revive the conscience he's been suppressing? Or is Carl in too deep, so tangled in corruption that he is a dead man no matter what he does?
Musso doesn't ask much in return: one hand washes the other. All Carl has to do us use his charm to seduce the promiscuous Natalie Bixby, locate her thieving boyfriend, and toss him to Musso like raw meat to a shark. Meanwhile, dark undercurrents are also flowing in the prisoner of war camp--Nazi intimidation, torture, escapes, and the murder of a child.
How much evil is Carl willing to ignore in his single-minded quest for stardom? Is he so far gone that he does not care who murdered a boy? Will his attraction to the young and beautiful Italian translator Elizabeth revive the conscience he's been suppressing? Or is Carl in too deep, so tangled in corruption that he is a dead man no matter what he does?
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Carl Carlson, the Carolina Crooner, had a paid ticket to easy street. He had a vicious set of singing pipes, the mob on his side, and a career set for stardom. Until World War II came along, that is. Two years later he's stuck as a translator for German prisoners at a Pennsylvania camp--not exactly a starring gig. Feeling discouraged, he reconnects with mob man Ernie Musso, who offers him a killer business deal--help him murder a rival and Carlson will find himself singing gold. It all sounds good until Carlson meets another POW translator who causes the singer to question his fate.
About the Author:
J. MADISON DAVIS was nominated for an Edgar Allan Poe award for his first novel, The Murder of Frau Schutz, set in a concentration camp during World War II. His novel Bloody Marko, about a Serbian ear criminal was called "superb" by The New York Times.
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- PublisherPermanent Press
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 1877946702
- ISBN 13 9781877946707
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages303
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