Jerusalem Poker

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Arrested on accusations of witchcraft and treason, Chant finds himself trapped in a cold, filthy jail cell in a foreign land. At each stop, the young investigator finds a beguiling mystery that pushes his powers of deduction to the limit. Maybe the characters help as well; Cairo Martyr, a Sudanese born peddlar of mummy-dust looking ti avenge the horrible wrongs done to his people, O'Sullivan Beare, Irish freedom-fighter turned gun runner turned who knows what (my personal favourite), Munk Szondi, ex Austro-Hungarian military officer and Zionist, Nubar Wallenstein, paranoid Albanian nobleman, and so on. He definitely isn't for everyone, and I'm actually surprised I like him as much as I have so far, since this fanciful, almost fairy tale type style isn't something I'm normally into. A 40-year-old schoolteacher from Ohio still reeling from the tragedies of the Great War and the influenza epidemic, Agnes has come into a modest inheritance that allows her to take the trip of a lifetime to Egypt and the Holy Land.

Please Note: This copy is being sold merely for the dustwrapper which is in clean very good condition. It seems to be under a continual siege of unknown nature, by unknown forces, and it just goes right on whistling and shouting and howling and doing all kinds of things I have no control over. The tone ranges from whimsical and funny to unsettling and depressing, in fact he resembles Heironymous Bosch in print when describing historical atrocities like the massacre at Smyrna or the Rape of Nanking. Excuse me for interrupting your meditations, gents, but it seems this is the only table in the room free from backgammon.Personalized advertising may be considered a “sale” or “sharing” of information under California and other state privacy laws, and you may have a right to opt out. The book which goes with this jacket is in poor condition with missing front endpaper and other significant flaws. There, Elizabeth becomes friendly with Armen, a young Armenian engineer who has already lost his wife and infant daughter. Derringer Books is an accredited member of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America (ABAA) and has been selling used and rare books and ephemera since 1998.

The letters are all addressed to "My dear and unfortunate successor", and they plunge her into a world she never dreamed of: a labyrinth where the secrets of her father's past and her mother's mysterious fate connect to an inconceivable evil hidden in the depths of history. This time when the cards were turned over he had the same two aces as before, plus an additional one.Kikuchi pressed the button once more to reveal a third face, also normal in appearance but with both hands seemingly stationary.

The book begins with two Indians plummeting from the sky after the explosion of their airliner, and proceeds through a series of metamorphoses, dreams and revelations. He would avenge the traitorous plot against his noble family and would bring to fruition humankind's most ancient and unattainable dream. Cairo Martyr's was the most unorthodox, since he never looked at his cards until all the betting was over, relying instead on some private law of averages to bring him his winnings. And speaking of the last century, why not put your painful Crimean experiences behind you and try your luck today with a spot of cards in Jerusalem?

And now that you know all that, you can see it's not just because of the weather that I'm sagging today. Edward Whittemore (1933­­­–1995) graduated from Yale University in 1955 and went on to serve as a Marine officer in Japan and spend ten years as a CIA operative in the Far East, Europe, and the Middle East. Booker Prize-winning author Salman Rushdie combines a ferociously witty family saga with a surreally imagined and sometimes blasphemous chronicle of modern India and flavors the mixture with peppery soliloquies on art, ethnicity, religious fanaticism, and the terrifying power of love. His death could easily go unnoticed as Rommel's tanks charge through the desert in an attempt to open the Middle East to Hitler's forces. The First World War is spreading across Europe, and she has volunteered on behalf of the Boston-based Friends of Armenia to deliver food and medical aid to refugees of the Armenian genocide.

This, the second in the tetralogy, follows on from where Sinai Tapestry left off but it isn’t nearly as good. Badly damaged, it is sent to Paris for restoration, and there literary historian Hugo Pineau begins to read the startling 14th-century text. If you’d like to file an allegation of infringement, you’ll need to follow the process described in our Copyright and Intellectual Property Policy.Some of the technologies we use are necessary for critical functions like security and site integrity, account authentication, security and privacy preferences, internal site usage and maintenance data, and to make the site work correctly for browsing and transactions. Within its pages lies a fanciful tale of a painted cave and the secrets it contains - and a rudimentary map showing its position close to the abbey. Whittemore in 5 interconnected novels, three of which I have read (only Sinai tapestry reads poorly as a stand alone) presents his gonzo secret history of the 20th century.