Chet Baker, the first pop star of jazz, celebrates his greatest successes in the 1950s, but drugs ruin his career. He achieves what no one thought possible: he makes a comeback in Europe - until he falls to his death from a hotel window in Amsterdam in May 1988. Smoky jazz clubs, American musicians in self-imposed European exile, the coffee shops and narrow streets of Amsterdam provide the backdrop for an exciting crime novel that follows the trail of the trumpet player driven by drugs and music.