Jerusalem Poker

About this book

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...