Quin's Shanghai Circus

Edward Whittemore. Old Earth Books, $17.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-1-882968-21-3

Between 1977 and 1987, former CIA operative Edward Whittemore (1933-1995) wrote the Jerusalem Quartet, a surreal historical fantasy that won many plaudits but little renown for its author. This remarkable epic set in the Middle East deserves a new generation of readers and comes with blurbs from Jonathan Carroll, Ellen Datlow and Mike Resnick.

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