Part One 1
Chapter 1
Eyeing a thousand musket barrels aimed at one’s chest does…
3
Chapter 2
I started with brelan, which is not a bad game…
11
Chapter 3
Jaffa rises like a loaf from the Mediterranean shore, empty…
19
Chapter 4
Jerusalem was half ruin, I saw when I rode down…
29
Chapter 5
To pass the winter, I did my best to tease…
39
Chapter 6
My first reaction was to depart Jerusalem, and the cursed…
49
Chapter 7
I expected Haim Farhi would have some of the Aristotle-like…
63
Chapter 8
“You should be honored, guv’nor,” Big Ned said.
75
Chapter 9
We ran back upstairs to the statue as if to…
91
Chapter 10
I knew I was in hell when Najac insisted on…
101
Chapter 11
Atrocities cannot be justified, but sometimes they can be explained. 112
Part Two 123
Chapter 12
I came to Acre a hero, but not for escaping…
125
Chapter 13
I needed to generate an electric charge on a scale…
139
Chapter 14
I peered out the sally port into a fog of…
153
Chapter 15
Mohammad was watching me closely. “This ring means something
to…
162
Chapter 16
I’d assumed we’d travel directly to Mount Nebo with Najac’s…
173
Chapter 17
With his instinct for the political, Bonaparte immediately named
our…
183
Chapter 18
The entrance to the City of Ghosts was a slit…
201
Chapter 19
We pretended to descend as if we were making for…
216
Chapter 20
The level exit from the City of Ghosts would take…
230
Chapter 21
We were on the coastal plain as the sun rose,…
241
Chapter 22
And then Colonel Phelipeaux died. Did he really comprehend his… 257
Part Three 265
Chapter 23
I arrived back in Egypt on July 14, 1799, one…
267
Chapter 24
We had two tasks. One was to use the Rosetta…
276
Chapter 25
Fleeing at the pace of a donkey cart is not…
287
Chapter 26
Astiza and I landed on the southern coast of France…
298
Chapter 27
There was irony in being imprisoned in a “temple” first…
312
Chapter 28
Astiza and I were both weaponless. The woman, for lack…
326
Historical Note 337
Acknowledgments 341
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