Gentlemen of the Road

A spellbinding yarn set a thousand years ago along the ancient Silk Road, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay 'Every page holds a twist, while the prose is rich, but perfect in its control' The Times 'It's been a while since I had such fun reading a book' Daily Telegraph In the Caucasus Mountains around AD 950, two wandering adventurers and unlikely soul mates live as they please and survive as they can - as blades and thieves for hire and practised bamboozlers. Until, following a bloody coup in the Jewish empire of the Khazars, they get dragooned into the service of a fugitive prince, who burns to reclaim his throne . . . Summoning the spirit of The Arabian Nights and The Three Musketeers, this is a novel brimming with action, raucous humour, cliff-hanging suspense, and a cast of colourful characters worthy of Scheherazade's most tantalising tales.