num_pages: 256
description: In Nazi-occupied Paris most Frenchmen tread warily but gay nightclub singer Yves Lacroix puts himself in the spotlight with every performance. As a veteran of Frances doomed defense a survivor of a prison camp and a degenerate he knows hes a target. His comic stage persona disguises a shamed angry heart and gut-wrenching fear for a sister embedded in the Resistance.Yet Yves ascends the hierarchy of Parisian nightlife to become a star attracting the attentionand the protectionof the Nazi Oberst Heinrich von Starck. To complicate matters further young foot soldier Falk Harfners nave adoration of Yves threatens everything hes worked for. So does Aryan ideologue von Grimmstein rival to von Starck who sees something a bit like a Jew in Yves.When an ill-chosen quip can mean torture at the hands of the Gestapo being the acclaimed Nightingale of Paris might cost Yves his music and his life.
language: English
title: Nightingale
publisher: 44 Raccoons