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Jerusalem Poker

paperback – November 1, 2002
by Edward Whittemore
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ISBN-13: 9781882968237 ISBN-10: 1882968239
Publisher
OLD EARTH BOOKS
Binding
paperback
Published
November 1, 2002
Weight
1.6 lbs
Dimensions
22.20×3.20×15.20 cm

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Jerusalem Poker by Edward Whittemore. paperback edition. ISBN: 9781882968237.

On the last day of December 1921, three enigmatic men -- Cairo Martyr, a blue-eyed African who controls the Middle Easts supply of aphrodisiac mummy dust; OSullivan Beare, a former Irish patriot and gunrunner who has made a fortune selling spurrious, phallic-shaped Christian artifacts; and Mark Szondi, a dedicated Zionist who wagers only fried fish futures -- sit down to a fateful game of poker in the back room of a Jerusalem antiquities shop owned by a 3000-year-old knight errant. The Great Jerusalem Poker Game as it came to be called, would last twelve years and had as its stake nothing less than control of Jerusalem itself...