Meet Augustus Berrycloth-Young - flaneur extraordinaire and Englishman abroad - as he chronicles the Jazz Age from his perch atop the city that never sleeps.
'Gussie' is not one to shun shut-eye himself, however. But his peaceful luxuriation is about to be rudely awakened by the arrival of an unexpected guest.
Enter his old friend Thomas Nightingale, who has braved the Atlantic passage pursuing the matter of a rather intriguing saxophone said to possess a strange power over those who play it.
This deeply inconvenient affair will rouse Gussie from his warm bed for the cold shores of Long Island - and down to the jazz clubs of Harlem where music, magic, and madness haunt the shadows...
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Ben Aaronovitch ha escrito guiones para muchas series televisivas de gran éxito, como Casualty, la añorada Jupiter Moon y Doctor Who. Su guión para Remembrance of the Daleks se considera un clásico dentro de Doctor Who. Ha publicado varias novelas, y cuando no escribe trabaja como librero. Más información en www.the-folly.com