Gentlemen of the road
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- ISBN: 9780307495655 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions)
- ISBN: 0307495655 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions)
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remote - Publisher: New York : Del Rey/Ballantine Books, [2008], c2007.
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General Note: | Title from eBook information screen. "Originally published in serial form in The New York Times in 2007"--Copyright. |
System Details Note: | Requires Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 4258 KB). |
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Subject: | Physicians -- Fiction Soldiers -- Fiction Khazars -- Fiction Kings and rulers -- Fiction Tenth century -- Fiction Caucasus -- History -- Fiction Azerbaijan -- History -- Fiction |
Genre: | Adventure stories. Humorous stories. Historical fiction. Electronic books. |
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Summary:
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.