Gentlemen of the Road by Michael Chabon (forum request) 5132722 8028 torrent

General Information
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Title: Gentlemen of the Road: A Tale of Adventure
Author: Michael Chabon
Read By: Andre Braugher
Copyright: 2007
Audiobook Copyright: 2007
Genre: Fiction
Publisher: Books On Tape
Abridged: No

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Source: 4 cd
Condition: Very Good

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Book Description
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Michael Chabon's Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller, The Amazing Adventures
of Kavalier & Clay, sprang from an early passion for the derring-do
and larger-than-life heroes of classic comic books. Now, once more mining
the rich past, Chabon summons the rollicking spirit of legendary adventures
- from The Arabian Nights to Alexandre Dumas to Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd
and the Gray Mouser storie - in a wonderful new novel brimming with
breathless action, raucous humor, cliff-hanging suspense, and a cast
of colorful characters worthy of Scheherazade's most tantalizing tales.-

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 foolhardy 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.

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