Jerusalem Poker

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Publication Year:
2013

ISBN-13: 9781480433908

<DIV><DIV><b>The second book of the Jerusalem Quartet, in which the fate of the Holy City is determined by an epic poker game played in the back of a Jerusalem antiques shop </b></div><DIV><BR>On New Year&rsquo;s Eve, 1921, three men sit down to a poker game. The Great Jerusalem Poker Game, as it&rsquo;s eventually known, continues for the next twelve years&mdash;the players unwilling to leave a competition whose prize is control of Jerusalem. The players are as exotic as the game: Cairo Martyr, a one-time African slave, now the Middle East&rsquo;s chief supplier of aphrodisiac mummy dust; Joe O&rsquo;Sullivan Beare, an Irish tradesman with a specialty in sacred phallic amulets; and Munk Szondi, an Austro-Hungarian Imperial Army colonel turned dedicated Zionist.</div><DIV><BR>But before the final hand is played to determine the destiny of the Holy City, a dangerous new player enters the picture: Nubar Wallenstein, an Albanian alchemist determined to achieve immortality, and heir to the world&rsquo;s largest oil syndicate. He finances a vast network of spies dedicated to destroying the players, and his aim is to win complete power over Jerusalem.</div><DIV><i><BR>Jerusalem Poker </i>is the second volume of the Jerusalem Quartet, which begins with <i>Sinai Tapestry </i>and continues with <i>Nile Shadows </i>and <i>Jericho Mosaic</i>.</div><DIV></div></div>