Gentlemen of the Road by Michael Chabon

Michael Chabon claims that the working title for this novel was Jews With Swords. But when he mentioned the name to acquaintances, they tended to laugh. “They saw their uncle Manny,” he noted, “dirk between his teeth, slacks belted at the armpits, dropping from the chandelier to knock together the heads of a couple of nefarious auditors.” Instead his sw…