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Prohibition-era
mobsters collide
with Underground Railroad abolitionists in The Jazz Cage.
It
is 1924—sixty years after the South’s victory in
the Civil
War.
Frank
McCluey, bounty hunter for the mob, is sent to help out a wealthy
Virginian bootlegger. Frank’s job: track down two female
slaves
who’ve run away
from the millionaire.
But the mob has
made a bad choice.
Instead of capturing the
women,
Frank
decides to help them
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escape to Canada,
his mission now
aided by the pint-sized but steel-willed runaway Della and the outlawed
Underground Railroad.
Soon
Della and Frank become the target of slave catchers, cops, gangsters,
and
most chilling of all, a Confederate agent nicknamed the Hound for his
ability
to always sniff out and kill his prey.
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