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When a witness claims to have seen Hüseyin Pasha hurl two girls' dead bodies from his attic window on Bourbon Street, everyone in New Orleans is willing to believe the "devilish Infidel" is guilty except Benjamin January. Only Benjamin, driven by memories of his first meeting with the Turk in Paris ten years earlier, is willing to brave public outrage and mob violence to seek for the true culprit.
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"When British spymaster Sir John Oldmixton offers Benjamin January a hundred dollars to find the murderer of an Englishman whose body has been found floating in the New Basin Canal, Benjamin turns him down immediately. As a free man of colour in New Orleans in the sweltering July of 1839, he knows this is not something he should get mixed up in. But when clues to the dead man's identity link the death to another murder, in another July in January's...
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