The Jazz Club Spy

✍ Scribed by Roberta Rich

• Book ID: 112091573
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: EN-CA
• Weight: 525 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781982187736

✦ Synopsis

A riveting historical thriller about a Jewish cigarette girl in 1930s New York who finds the soldier who burned down her Russian village years earlier only to be swept up in a political conspiracy on the eve of World War II --from the #1 bestselling author of The Midwife of Venice.
New York, 1939

Giddy Brodsky knows she's lucky to have a job as a cigarette girl at a Manhattan jazz club, but she dreams of opening her own beauty shop and lifting her family out of poverty. The Brodskys have lived cheek to jowl in the Lower East Side tenements since they came to America nineteen years ago, fleeing a deadly pogrom in their Russian village. But they continue to face prejudice, especially with the rise of the fascist organization the American Bund.

Yet Giddy is focused on the future--until she recognizes one of the Cossacks who irrevocably changed her life and the past comes flooding back. Determined to get justice, she enlists the help of...