Everyone comes to Casablanca - and sooner or later everyone comes to Rick: the leader of the Czech Resistance, the most beautiful woman in Europe, a brilliant black pianist, an expansive Russian bartender, Germans, French, Norwegians and Bulgarians, servants of the Third Reich and freedom fighters. What began in Casablanca (1942) - one of the greatest films in the history of world cinema - continued and finally reached its conclusion. New York gangsters of the 1930s, the assassination attempt of Reinhard Heydrich in 1942, exciting military adventures and poignant love story in Michael Walsh's novel Play It Again, Sam. Here is the prequel and sequel to Casablanca, a novel that revives a classic of world cinema to new life and brings back to us the characters that everyone is destined to fall in love with when they first see this film. “Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.”