Yes, Music of Time is highly recommended. Bought it piecemeal in second hand bookstores, so they look a bit different on the shelf. Some of his characters disappear in WW2 of course, such as when a bomb hits the Cafe de Madrid in London... just as a bomb hit the real-life Cafe de Paris in London. Jenkins is not the action-man protaganist so much as a slightly bemused but always entertained observer of the dance.
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