From Bestselling Historical Novelist Max Byrd Comes A New Novel Set Against The Dramatic Backdrop Of Paris In The Jazz Agea Fascinating Suspense Tale Interwoven With Rich Historical Detail.paris, 1926. Newspaper Reporter Toby Keats, A Veteran Of The Great War And The Only American In Paris Who Doesnt Know Hemingway, Has Lived A Quiet Lifeuntil One Day He Comes Into Possession Of A Rare Eighteenth-century Automate, A Very Strange And Somewhat Scandalous Mechanical Duck. Highly Sought After By An Enigmatic American Banker, European Criminals, And The Charming Young American Elsie Short, The Duck Is Rumored To Hold The Key To Opening A New Frontier In Weapons Technology For The German Army, Now Beginning To Threaten Europe Once More.