{"product_id":"o-jerusalem-9780553110937","title":"O Jerusalem","description":"\u003cp\u003eWith her bestselling mystery series featuring Sherlock Holmes and Mary Russell  Laurie R. King has created \"lively adventure in the very best of intellectual company \" according to The New York Times Book Review. Now the author of The Beekeepers Apprentice and The Moor--the first writer since Patricia Cornwell to win both the American Edgar and British Creasey Awards for a debut novel (A Grave Talent)--unfolds a hitherto unknown chapter in the history of Russells apprenticeship to the great detective.  At the close of the year 1918  forced to flee Englands green and pleasant land  Russell and Holmes enter British-occupied Palestine under the auspices of Holmes enigmatic brother  Mycroft.  \"Gentlemen  we are at your service.\" Thus Holmes greets the two travel-grimed Arab figures who receive them in the orange groves fringing the Holy Land. Whatever role could the volatile Ali and the taciturn Mahmoud play in Mycrofts design for this land the British so recently wrested from the Turks? After passing a series of tests  Holmes and Russell learn their guides are engaged in a mission for His Majestys Government  and disguise themselves as Bedouins--Russell as the beardless youth \"Amir\"--to join them in a stealthy reconnaissance through the dusty countryside.  A recent rash of murders seems unrelated to the growing tensions between Jew  Moslem  and Christian  yet Holmes is adamant that he must reconstruct the most recent one in the desert gully where it occurred. His singular findings will lead him and Russell through labyrinthine bazaars  verminous inns  cliff-hung monasteries--and into mortal danger. When her mentors inquiries jeopardize his life  Russell fearlessly wields a pistol and even assays the arts of seduction to save him. Bruised and bloodied  the pair ascend to the jewellike city of Jerusalem  where they will at last meet their adversary  whose lust for savagery and power could reduce the citys most ancient and sacred place to rubble and ignite this tinderbox of a land....  Classically Holmesian yet enchantingly fresh  sinuously plotted  with colorful characters and a dazzling historic ambience  O Jerusalem sweeps readers ever onward in the thrill of the chase.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45647269429301,"sku":"ByrdShop_0553110934","price":22.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780553110937.jpg?v=1781691283","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/o-jerusalem-9780553110937","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}