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REVIEW / BOOKS; FUN, CRAZINESS, A PARIS GIVEAWAY

Margaret Manning Globe Staff

1983

Overview

Maybe you'll remember Jules, the teenage motorcyclist messenger who is whacko about music and especially about Cynthia Hawkins, an American soprano who is making her Parisian debut. He goes to her concert and surreptitiously tapes it, then in her backstage dressing room he steals her - I'm afraid Delacorta calls it her gown. It was on a chair, chums. Meanwhile we have gangsters and corrupt cops. Chief gangster honcho is Jean Saporta who owns drugs and prostitution in Paris, and his accomplice Boulanger, head of the vice squad. Saporta's mistress fingers him and Boulanger on a cassette and delivers it to an intermediary. For various reasons the cassette winds up in Jules' saddlebag, though he is not on to this dangerous fact. So Jules is tearing around Paris carrying two exceedingly interesting items. Saporta discovers that Jules has his tape but he can't find Jules who has teamed up with Gorodish and Alba, and I shan't say any more except to remind you of Jules' triumphant ride through the Paris Metro on his motorcycle.

• Publisher: Boston Globe Media Partners, LLC
• Subject: Ajar, Emile / Gary, Romain