The 16th Song
By David Powell
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Peter Daniels, a talented composer and pianist, is alone in the turbulent Paris of the 1950s when Marie Gautier, an attractive translator, and Jean-Claude - her charismatic boyfriend and a radical young lawyer - befriend him.
Working as he does in the demi-monde of illegal immigrants and left wing causes Jean-Claude finds Peter work replacing an American pianist who has broken his hand in a fight in a jazz club. When the man is deported Peter moves into his flat and discovers a sheaf of brilliant but unpublished music. Peter hears of the man’s suicide in an American jail and the music becomes both his treasure and his secret. At the same time, the political and criminal forces that Jean-Claude opposes pursue them and destroy their relationship, forcing Peter to run back to England and a life with Hannah, his student girlfriend.
Peter’s illicit treasure brings him great riches and Hannah becomes his wife, but guilt makes him secretive and withdrawn. Yet the music acts as a conduit to the past and try as he might, he cannot escape the spotlight it draws to him.
Peter realises that the past controls his life, and his need for secrecy perverts it. Will the past destroy him and his marriage before he can prove his real worth as a musician?
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The author has written many plays for BBC Wales; this is his first novel.
David Powell
David A. Powell is a graduate of the Virginia Military Institute (1983) with a BA in history. He has published numerous articles in various magazines, and more than fifteen historical simulations of different battles. For the past decade, David’s focus has been on the epic battle of Chickamauga, and he is nationally recognized for his tours of that important battlefield. The results of that study are the volumes The Maps of Chickamauga (2009) and Failure in the Saddle (2010), as well as The Chickamauga Campaign trilogy. The Chickamauga Campaign: A Mad Irregular Battle was published in 2014, The Chickamauga Campaign: Glory or the Grave appeared in September 2015, and the final volume, Barren Victory, was released in September 2016. David and his wife Anne live and work in the northwest suburbs of Chicago, Illinois. He is Vice President of Airsped, Inc., a specialized delivery firm.
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