Gentlemen of the Road: A Tale of Adventure [title page only] -- Michael Chabon

<b>#1 <i>SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE </i>BESTSELLER - NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE <i>CHICAGO TRIBUNE</i><br></b><br><b>"A picaresque, swashbuckling adventure."--<i>The Washington Post Book World</i></b> <p/>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 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. But when they are dragooned into service as escorts and defenders to a prince of the Khazar Empire, they soon find themselves the half-willing generals in a full-scale revolution--on a road paved with warriors and whores, evil emperors and extraordinary elephants, secrets, swordplay, and such stuff as the grandest adventures are made of. <p/><b>Praise for <i>Gentlemen of the Road</i></b> <p/>"Within a few pages I was happily tangled in Chabon's] net of finely filigreed language, seduced by an old-school-style swashbuckling quest . . . laced with surprises and humor."<b>--<i>San Francisco Chronicle </i><br></b><br>" Chabon] is probably the premiere prose stylist--the Updike--of his generation."<b>--<i>Time <br></i></b><br>"The actio