A rich and compelling novel that spans the turbulent decades from the closing of World War II to the Israeli invasion of southern Lebanon, involving Muslims, Jews, and Christians and involving an undercover secret...
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On the last day of December 1921, three men sat down to a game of poker in the back room of an antiquities shop in Jerusalem: * Cairo Martyr an enigmatic black giant from Africa who controlled the supply of aphrodisiac mummy dust in the Middle...
On a clear night in 1942 a hand grenade exploded in a Cairo slum, killing one man instantly. That man is Stern, an obscure gunrunner and morphine addict whose death should be of no significance during the darkest days of the century. In the...
Tales of a blind man, written down by an imbecile. Such is the genesis of the Bible in this raucous, unsettling account of recent and not-so-recent history with its richly entwined odysseys:
Plantagenet Strongbow, twenty-ninth Duke of Dorset,...