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Jerusalem Poker

By: Edward Whittemore
Narrated by: Fleet Cooper
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On the last day of December 1921, three enigmatic men - Cairo Martyr, a blue-eyed African who controls the Middle East's supply of aphrodisiac mummy dust; O'Sullivan Beare, a former Irish patriot and gunrunner who has made a fortune selling spurious, 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…

©1978 Edward Whittemore, Copyright renewed 2002 by Edward Whittemore Estate, Foreword copyright 2002 by Tom Wallace, Introduction copyright 2002 by Lesley Hazleton, “An Editorial Relationship” copyright 2002 by Judy Karasik (P)2013 Audible Inc.
Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Magical Realism Science Fiction Magic Middle East Fantasy Middle Ages Game Poker Africa Imperialism Ancient History Crusade

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