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050 00 $aPS3553.H15$bG46 2007
082 00 $a813/.54$222
100 1 $aChabon, Michael.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n87915233
245 10 $aGentlemen of the road /$cMichael Chabon ; illustrated by Gary Gianni.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bDel Rey/Ballantine Books,$c[2007], ©2007.
300 $axvi, 204 pages :$billustrations ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
500 $aMap on endpapers.
520 1 $a"They're an odd pair, to be sure: pale, rail-thin, black-clad Zelikman, a moody, itinerant physician fond of jaunty headgear, and ex-soldier Amram, a gray-haired giant of a man as quick with a razor-tongued witticism as he is with a sharpened battle-ax. Brothers under the skin, comrades in arms, they make their rootless way through the Caucasus Mountains, circa A.D. 950, living as they please and surviving however they can - as blades and thieves for hire and as practiced bamboozlers, cheerfully separating the gullible from their money. No strangers to tight scrapes and close shaves, they've left many a fist shaking in their dust, tasted their share of enemy steel, and made good any number of hasty exits under hostile circumstances." "None of which has necessarily prepared them to be dragooned into service as escorts and defenders to a prince of the Khazar Empire. Usurped by his brutal uncle, the callow and decidedly ill-tempered young royal burns to reclaim his rightful throne. But doing so will demand wicked cunning, outrageous daring, and fool-hardy bravado ... not to mention an army. Zelikman and Amram can at least supply the former. But are these gentlemen of the road prepared to become generals in a full-scale revolution? The only certainty is that getting there - along a path paved with warriors and whores, evil emperors and extraordinary elephants, secrets, swordplay; and such stuff as the grandest adventures are made of - will be much more than half the fun."--BOOK JACKET.
655 7 $aAdventure fiction.$2gsafd
651 0 $aAzerbaijan$xHistory$vFiction.
655 7 $aHumorous fiction.$2gsafd
655 7 $aHistorical fiction.$2gsafd
852 00 $bbar$hPS3553.H15$iG46 2007