Jitterbug: A Novel of Detroit

By: Loren D. Estleman

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Synopsis: Detroit of World War II- the anguish of war, hot jazz, racial tension, and a fanatical killer A tough town in a tough time- Detroit during World War II was where the United States' furious effort to out-manufacture the Germans and Japanese occurred. Industry imported workers to replace men gone to war- Southern whites and blacks working side by side for the first time. Detroit had it all: rationing, the black market, the Mafia, fortunes to be made; a new kind of jazz for seething summer nights- a powder keg. Through this tense, troubled world cuts a killer, a self-appointed solr savaging ordinary people, the defenseless. Lieutenant Zagreb's most important job is to keep the city from exploding, then to catch a mad killer with a cop roster of 4-Fs and near- retirees, and, finally, he has to save his own soul. He cannot succeed at all three. Wartime Detroit is dazzlingly recreated