Fiction. In his newest of twelve novels, John A. Williams presents the story of a black, gay jazz musician imprisoned in Dachau who manages to survive by working as the band leader of a group of prisoners who play at a nearby club for SS officers. "If there is an undiscovered aspect of the black experience, it will be found by Williams. John A. Williams proves again that he is the greatest American novelist of the twentieth century"--Ishmael Reed. "Inspired by a little known fact about WWII, Williams creates a chillingly lifelike account of the treatment of black people by the Nazis...[Clifford's] diary, though fictional, is an eloquent testimony to the largely unknown sufferings of blacks--not only African Americans but 'colored men' from all countries--who were incarcerated in WWII concentration camps"--Publishers Weekly.