King Zeno

New Orleans, 1918—an ax murderer draws together a cop, a Mafia matriarch, and a jazz musician in this crime novel by the author of Odds Against Tomorrow . New Orleans, 1918: A new American music is born, prostitution is outlawed, and the police retake the streets with maximum violence. In the Ninth Ward, laborers break ground on a gigantic canal that will split the city—a work of staggering human ingenuity intended to restore New Orleans’s faded mercantile glory. As the war ends and a prosperous